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More "good luck" was in store for young Mrs Headfort that afternoon. And when she went up-stairs again to dress for dinner, and found her sister-In bed indeed, but on the alert to jump up to see to Evelyn's toilet-she rejoiced that Philippa's having been asleep before had delayed her relating the new cause of alarm that had arisen, till she could at the same time tell of its happy dispersal.
This was what had happened.