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"Well? " she asked.
From the other end of the breakfast-table he returned -- "Well? " and for several minutes this exchange of monosyllables seemed going to be the end -- it was not quite the beginning -- of the conversation that had sprung from a letter, and to the perusal or reperusal of that letter Mrs. Tancred had returned.