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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">… a sound in the hall interrupted her. Was someone
coming in? She listened. No, it was the wind. The wind was terrific. It pressed
on the house; gripped it tight, then let it fall apart. Upstairs a door slammed;
a window must be open in the bedroom above. A blind was tapping. … But there was
another sound in the hall. It was the wind, but it was also a voice, talking. It
must be Martin. But who could he be talking to, she wondered? She listened, but
she could not hear what he was saying because of the
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">… Now it was hailing. White rods came across the window
in the back room. There was a great gust of wind; the little bushes blanched and
bent under it. And a window banged upstairs in her mother's bedroom. Perhaps I
ought to go and shut it, she thought. The rain must be coming in.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">"What awful lives children live!" he said, waving his
hand at her as he crossed the room. "Don't they, Rose?"</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">"Yes," said Rose. "And they can't tell anybody," she
added.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">There was another gust and the sound of glass
crashing.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">"Miss Pym's conservatory?" said Martin, pausing with his
hand on the door.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">"Miss Pym?" said Eleanor. "She's been dead these twenty
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