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It was Mortmain who first recovered his poise, to realize in a flash how this amazing thing had happened. For here was the woman of his dreams, the woman he had loved and lost and the one being in the world he had never expected to see again. And, behold, here she was, standing opposite him, as young and as beautiful as ever and not changed one iota from the girl from whom he had parted just two years ago with every hope of seeing her again on the morrow. And then had come that letter which had touched his pride and sent him out into the wilderness, a broken and unhappy man at the very moment when he had deemed himself to be basking in fortune's most spacious smile.
It was not to be deemed for a moment that Margaret Grimshaw, as he had to call her, had come there expecting to meet her old lover. At the same time it was almost incredible to Mortmain to believe that she had remained unaware of the startling change in his fortune.