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Bayre followed Miss Merriman into the house, and into the little ground-floor sitting-room, where she turned up the gas and showed the folding doors open into the adjoining room, where a maid sat reading a novelette by the light of a candle beside the baby's cot.
"Wait here a moment, I always go and kiss my baby the moment I come in; nothing can interfere with that ceremony," she said, with a pretty defiance which Bayre liked.