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"Oh, I say, Roger, do wait for me a moment! What a tremendous hurry you're in! I want to speak to you."
Roger Trent paused to allow the speaker-Edgar Marsh-to come up to him. It was nearly five o'clock on the afternoon subsequent to the night of Cousin Becky's arrival at Beaworthy, and the cousins were later than usual in returning from school, as they had lingered in the playground-a large yard surrounded by high walls at the back of the Grammar School building, which was situated in one of the principal streets of the town-to enjoy a good game of snowballing. Several inches of snow had fallen during the night, but the morning had dawned clear and fine; there had been only a very slight thaw, and now the air was keen and betokened frost.