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Miss Decker paced restlessly up and down the sea-room waiting for the mail. Mrs. Pendleton, more composed but equally nervous, lay in a long chair, with expectation in her eyes and triumph on her lips.
"Will they answer or will they not? " exclaimed Miss Decker. "If the mail would only come! Will they be crushed? -furious? -or-will they apologise?"