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ELINE SIMPSON, with a large handkerchief tied round her face, turned on her bed and groaned. It was unfortunate for all concerned that Eline's bedroom was immediately above that occupied by Mr. John Stott and his wife, although Eline's groans had no serious effect upon that lady.
Mr. Stott had reached the stage where he waited with agonized expectancy for the next boom of anguish; when it did not come he was frantic, when it finally shivered the walls of his room he was maddened. Eline was an irregular groaner.