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THE last person in the world I expected to see was the negress whom John Field had married in the wilds of Africa, and I was so taken by surprise that I hadn't a word to say. You can't imagine anything more-what is the word? incongruous, is it? -than the sight of that young woman in this big, vaulted manor hall. She just didn't belong to the country and didn't belong to the house.
The queer thing was that I had made up my mind during the night that I would see her that day.