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Starmidge and Polke presently left -- to walk down to the railway station with the bewildered clerk; when they had gone, Betty turned to Neale, who was hanging about her sitting-room with no obvious intention of leaving it.
"While these people are doing what they can in their way, is there nothing we can do in ours? " she asked. "I hate sitting here doing nothing at all! You're a free man now, Wallie -- can't you suggest something?"