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Whatever Lady Argent's strictures on the length of time that Mrs. Severing might entertain a hypothetical director in the confessional, she did not herself hesitate to inflict upon the Prior at Twickenham an epistle which covered the better part of six pages.
Ludovic watched his mother's pen hurrying over her paper with an uneasy sense of knowing what she was about, and presently asked her gently: