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"Ah, Miss Pembury, there's been a many changes since the night when you ran away from here! " she said, as she sighed and folded her hands in her lap. "But why did you go so quick and so quiet? And why didn't you come forward when the inquest was held?"
"I -- I went away because I'd displeased Sir Robert," said Rhoda. "So that I couldn't bear to meet him again. And as for the inquest, if you mean that on the poor butler, I never heard anything about it till long after it was over. I fell ill, you know, and they wouldn't let me know anything."