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Ernest Chapin found himself alone with Dorothy for a moment, on the Terrace.
"I can't talk about it!" he exclaimed, as if in agony. "How can those other men discuss it as if it were an every-day business affair? They propose coroners and detectives as if they were ordering workmen about."