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Mrs. Willing was as much interested as her husband in the arrival of Mrs. Knapp in the store. When he had finished telling her about the interview and they had laughed and wondered over the acuteness of the novice's criticism of McCarthy's window-dressing, Nell said reflectively: "Do you know, from all I've heard about her from the St. Peter's women -- I wouldn't be a bit surprised."
Jerome recognized the idea to which his wife's imagination, like his own, had leaped, but he did not think it at all necessary to let Nell know that the same possibility had occurred to him.