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He called soon after six that evening, coming straight from the station to the house. Miss Palliser was in the library, but his face as he entered bore such unmistakable signs of emotion that Kitty in the kindness of her heart withdrew.
He was alone there, as he had been on that evening of his first coming. He looked round at the place he had lo