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Saton left the country on the following afternoon, arrived at St. Pancras soon after five, and drove at once to a large, roomy house on the north side of Regent's Park. He was admitted by a trim parlormaid -- Parkins had been left behind to superintend the removal from Blackbird's Nest -- and he found himself asking his first question with a certain amount of temerity.
"Madame is in? " he inquired.