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The lay-brother who responded to Cicely's summons on the bell was old, / slow moving, kindly, but remote from daily affairs. He was probably / inured to the coming of harassed people in hot haste to see one of the / priests, and had learned to feel that haste was unnecessary, trouble / but fleeting.
"Father Morley is expecting someone; he told me to say that he could / not see anyone but her till after dinner. Would you be her? Cicely / Adair was the name," the old brother said.