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A day or two after the Headforts' return to Greenleaves, Philippa got a letter from Maida Lermont. The Dorriford people were now at _home_ again, but they had travelled back by slow stages, and this was only the second time that any direct news of them had come since Mr Raynsworth and his daughter had left Cannes.
Miss Lermont wrote cheerfully. She was feeling so well, she said, far better than "this time last _year_," and she was looking forward to seeing her cousin before long, though how or when exactly she could not say-it was more "a sort of presentiment. " She gave a few details, with the graphic interest of touch peculiar to her, of their journey homewards and certain new sights and experiences it had offered. And then at the close came a mention of the name which, almost unconsciously to herself, Philippa had been looking for all through the letter.