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Basset moved in his chair. He was unhappy and ill at ease. He looked at the fire, he looked askance at Mary. "But do you mean," he said, "that you knew nothing about this until you had my letter?"
"Nothing," Mary answered, "not a word. " She, too, found it more easy to look at the fire.