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Late on the following afternoon Gabrielle was seated at the old-fashioned piano in her aunt's tiny drawing-room, her fingers running idly over the keys, her thoughts wandering back to the exciting adventure of the previous morning. Her aunt was out visiting some old people in connection with the village clothing club, therefore she sat gloomily amusing herself at the piano, and thinking -- ever thinking.
She had been playing almost mechanically Berger's "Amoureuse" valse and some dreamy music from _The Merry Widow_, when she suddenly stopped and sat back with her eyes fixed out of the window upon the cottages opposite.