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For the first two months of his acquaintance with the Shaxtons, Heans had seen very little of Matilda. Once and again he had taken tea with her--when the weekly meeting in the study had finished late--but more than once he had himself been responsible for a curtailment of the discussion between himself, Shaxton, and two or three "silent-treatment" enthusiasts, that he might, as he said, "get the alterations worked in that evening."
He had not much to which to return.