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Mother Carey raised her bleary face with a start, and looked round. The owner of the name she had been apostrophising stood in the room beside her. She twisted an involuntary little shriek into a titter.
"Well, I'm sure," she said, "to take me like that, in a moment, and anything possible! Was the door ajar? "