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Pleasance's last words were Miss Verity's first ones.
"It _is_ nice to find you back," she said to Mary, as she drove up, with a cheery ting-ting from the ponies' bells. "And I hope tea is quite ready, for I have had rather a cold drive," she added, as she got out.