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'Were you very late last night, Aunt Alison? Are you tired?'
The questions came from Frances, who had noticed the unusual silence at the breakfast-table -- not that they were ever very loquacious, for Eugene had his meals up-stairs and he was the chatterbox of the party -- but without any of her sister's fears or misgivings. So that she looked up at her aunt in happy freedom from any self-conscious embarrassment.