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Miss Nugent was bitterly mortified by the action of Colonel Greyson. He had promised to call upon her mother, and instead had taken himself off, no one knew whither, and with him the secret of Sir Harold's movements. He had not even troubled himself to write one word of explanation.
She had waited for whole days in miserable expectation, and then suddenly announced her determination of calling upon the colonel.