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The ladies finished their tea, and the butler came and took the cups away. Miss Lynde remained silent in her chair at her end of the library-table, and by-and-by Bessie got a book and began to read. When her aunt woke up it was half past nine. "Was that Alan coming in? " she asked.
"I don't think he's been out," said the girl. "It isn't late enough for him to come in -- or early enough."