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Mrs. Crofton was walking restlessly about her new home -- the house that was so new to her, and yet, if local tradition could be trusted, one of the oldest inhabited dwellings in that part of England.
She had felt so sure that Godfrey Radmore would manage to get away from Old Place, and call on her this afternoon, for Jack Tosswill had told her that he was arriving before tea -- she felt depressed and disappointed though she had not yet given up hope.