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Christmas was over; the Countess Dowager and the Ladies Devenish had taken their departure from Thistlemere; the weather was inclement, and a great deal of time had to be spent indoors; which made Nora often wish that she and her husband were alone. One day she expressed something of the kind to him. She said, --
‘I thought people usually kept their country seats for the purposes of retirement, but we have never been alone since we came here.'