I explained as best I could why I could not tell her.

"Humph!" she ejaculated, and without further speech led me to the door.

"There will be fees, I suppose," she said contemptuously, staring at her

hand upon the doorknob. "Do not expect much. You are the only person who

has entered this house for a year."

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