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"Will you permit me to come inside a moment? " I asked the girl. "I want you to tell me one or two things, if you will."
At first she hesitated, but having surveyed me critically and finding, I suppose, that I was not a tramp she opened the door wider and admitted me to the room wherein her mistress had entertained me on the previous night.