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AGAIN Marjorie rapped on the table with her iron spoon.
"As none of you seems to offer any suggestions," she went on, as if she had not been interrupted at all, "I will lay down the law. Hester, you're Stoker. The coal and wood has come. Now see if you can make a fire that shall be worthy of one whom England expects this day to do her duty!"