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As Philip was leaving that afternoon, Ella, whom he had not seen since luncheon, met him in the hall.
"Will you be so kind," she began, "if it is not too much trouble -- would you mind taking this little parcel to my godmother? " and she held up a small packet just twice the size of the one that had been transferred from his keeping to hers that same morning.