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"GOOD gracious! " said I, "what are you doing here? " She was a childlike little creature, having brown hair and brown eyes. She was dressed in black silk, and wore a white lace veil tied in a quaint, coquettish way over her head. She looked up and recognised me.
"Donnington's gone away," she said, simply, "and I don't know what to do."