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It was dusk before Molly returned to the Inn.
Her step-mother, huddled as usual before the fire, gave her an angry greeting. "Where ha' ye bin all th' day? Leavin' me to get th' dinner, an' thy feyther like a sot gone fathoms deep i' drink, an' bundled up ta bed. Why, what's come ta 'ee, Moll? Thee'rt white an' whist as if 'eed seen a ghoast."