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"In the mute August afternoon / They trembled to some undertune / Of music in the silver air; / Great pleasure was it to be there / Till green turned duskier and the moon / Coloured the corn-sheaves like gold hair. "
The atmosphere of Grace Perivale's life was changed. John Faunce's keen eye for character had not erred in this particular case. Lady Perivale at Runnymede Grange was not the same woman the detective had conversed with in Grosvenor Square.