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When she had filled her band-box, and with a tearful laugh looked her last on the cell, she emerged from the yard. She found Captain Clyne awaiting her with his hand on the key of the prison gate. He saw her look doubtfully at the closed lodge-door; and he misread the look.
"I thought," he said, "that you would wish to be spared seeing more of them. I have," with a faint smile, "authority to open."