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Mrs. Lidcote, as the huge menacing mass of New York defined itself far off across the waters, shrank back into her corner of the deck and sat listening with a kind of unreasoning terror to the steady onward drive of the screws.
She had set out on the voyage quietly enough, -- in what she called her "reasonable" mood, -- but the week at sea had given her too much time to think of things and had left her too long alone with the past.