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I do not know why. It was as if she held a ball of soft yellow light with acoin at the bottom of it. With a horrible jolt, AuntGreysteel realized that there was indeed a second person in the room - awoman, but not Flora a woman in a dark, old-fa He pulled open the gate and led in his horse.

Noone knows what mortification it is to me to appear in this scarecrow condition. I thought how muchthey resembled the black-painted, black-curtained conjuring boxes of mychildhood the His blankethad fallen from him and he was eagerly pushing back the sleeves of his coat. The waiter brought him a glass of water and he carefully tipped inone tiny drop.