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Geoff hurried on with his dressing. He was wretchedly unhappy -- all the more so because he was furiously angry with Elsa, and perhaps, at the bottom of his heart, with himself.
His room was, as I have said, at the top of the house. He did not hear the front-door bell ring while he was splashing in his bath; and as he rushed downstairs a quarter of an hour or so after Elsa had left him, he was considerably taken aback to be met at the foot of the first flight by the now familiar figure of Mr. Byrne.