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Lord Cawthorne shut himself up in his library, to the exclusion of all callers, and worked so hard upon his report that within a week he was able to write to Dorothy requesting an appointment to settle the minutes. He wrote formally, and the girl replied in the same spirit, naming the second day from date at three o'clock in the afternoon.
He found her awaiting him and expecting the actuary he had promised.