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“I thought he never did anything.”“That’s because you don’t know him, aunt.”“No; certainly I don’t know him.” She did not add that s t he had no wish to know Mr George Vavasor, but she looked it. “And has your father been told that he is going?”“Of course he has.”

 

“And does — ” Lady Macleod hesitated a little before she went on, and then finished her question with a little spasmodic assumpt ion of courage. “And does Mr Grey know that he is going?”Alice remained silent for a full minute before she answered this question, during which Lady Macleod sat watching her grimly, with her eyes very intent upon her niece’s