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Mrs. Dewar led the way to her office. The bedroom, Roger now observed, was a small apartment little larger than a cupboard, which opened out from it.
"You seem to be a very restless young man," she said, without asking him to sit down. "I begin to think that you would be too restless for us here. We are quiet people, as a rule. We find our own business quite sufficient to look after."