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The words were addressed to Mr. Sutton, who did not seem able to shut the door. But the answer came from the other side of the door.
"By your leave,"-the voice, a little breathless, was Mrs. Gilson's-"I'm coming in too. " And she came in at that, and brusquely. "I think you are over many men for one woman," she continued, setting her cap straight, and otherwise not a whit discomposed by the men's attitude. "You'll want me before you are done, you'll see."