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When Anna Stormer came into the study she found her husband standing at the window with his head a little on one side-a tall, long-legged figure in clothes of a pleasant tweed, and wearing a low turn-over collar (not common in those days) and a blue silk tie, which she had knitted, strung through a ring. He was humming and gently tapping the window-pane with his well-kept finger-nails. Though celebrated for the amount of work he got through, she never caught him doing any in this house of theirs, chosen because it was more than half a mile away from the College which held the 'dear young clowns,' as he called them, of whom he was tutor.
He did not turn-it was not, of course, his habit to notice what was not absolutely necessary-but she felt that he was aware of her. She came to the window seat and sat down. He looked round at that, and said: "Ah!"