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Mortmain stood contemplating his aged retainer as if he were seeing him for the first time. It seemed so strange that the quiet and retiring Farthing should speak so emphatically.
"What makes you think that?" he asked. "My dear man, you are surely not suggesting that a melodrama has been staged during the dead of night in this aristocratic old library?"