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The next day when I went back, my fears were realised: the door was refused to me -- my Lady was not at home. This I knew to be false: I had watched the door the whole morning from a lodging I took at a house opposite.
"Your lady is not out," said I: "she has denied me, and I can't, of course, force my way to her. But listen: you are an Englishman?"