At the stroke of ten she murmured, "Steven, are you ready for bed?"

He rose, stumbling for drowsiness.

As they passed into the square hall he paused and looked round him

before putting out the lights.

"Yes" (he yawned). "Ye-hes. I think we shall do very comfortably here

for the next seven years."

He was thinking of old Hyslop. He had given him seven years.

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