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It was on a wonderful morning, full of the promise of early spring, about a week later that Matresser, with Elisabeth by his side and the little brown dog curled up between them, raced along the broad Newmarket road from London in his long grey car on his way to Matresser. As nearly as a man could, it seemed to him that he had found perfect happiness. He had paid his visits of ceremony, and Elisabeth's uncle and aunt were to follow them to Norfolk in a few days' time. They had made an early start, and it was only a little after half-past eleven when they drew up before the great iron gates of the house.
"You feel that you are coming home, dear?" he asked Elisabeth.