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The next day passed so uneventfully that Betty began to think that for once the Fates had taken her at her word, and that the episode of Mr Littlewood's visit might be forgotten without fear of their meeting him again, to revive its annoying associations.
"He must have left with Mr Milne after all, I hope," she said on the following afternoon, alluding to something he had said to Frances about staying a day or two longer to see if the head-keeper's roseate account of shooting was to be depended upon. "Oh, I do hope he has!"