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THERE was somebody waiting to see her, and no better indication of her character could be afforded than that within a minute of Tanner's leaving to make his inspection she should be admonishing a nervous little decorator for certain mistakes he had made in his drawings. Mr. Rawbane, architect and authority on heraldry, stood nervously by her desk,
"I thought perhaps you'd rather the matter stood over for a day or two," he said, "It was a great shock to me--this dreadful affair."