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MRS. CRASHAW, entering unobserved: ‘Promise you what, Agnes? The man doesn't smoke _now_. What more can you ask? ' She starts back from the spectacle of Roberts's disordered dress. ‘Why, what's happened to you, Edward?'
MRS. ROBERTS, springing to her feet: ‘Oh, you may well ask that, Aunt Mary! Happened? You ought to fall down and worship him! And you _will_ when you know what he's been through. He's been robbed!'