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When his daughters were leaving the room that evening after dinner, Colonel St Quentin detained Madelene by an almost imperceptible gesture. On her side Madelene glanced at Ermine, and by the slightest possible turn of her eyelids recommended Ella to her care. None of this was lost upon the young lady.
"Going to talk me over again," she said to herself as she followed Ermine, "well, they'll have plenty of opportunities of doing so before they've done with me, I'm afraid."