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"What shall we do? What can be the matter? " said Madelene, when after an instant's silence she began to take in the fact of Ella's arrival.
"Receive her cordially of course. What else in Heaven's name can you do? " Sir Philip replied with a touch of impatience. "After all there is nothing so extraordinary in a girl's coming to her own father's house -- even taking refuge there if, as is possible -- "