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The day following Lydia's arrival in London was a Sunday and gave her further opportunity for studying her fellow-inmates.
She remained in her own room, however, most of the morning, until the maid Irene burst in upon her, a victim to that peculiar breathlessness so frequently characteristic of lodging- or boarding-house servants.