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"For the love of heaven!" Roger exclaimed. "Mrs. Padgham!"
She gripped him by the shoulders--not, as he realised, in any sort of embrace, but from sheer terror--and in those few seconds of almost suspended animation, his senses were sufficiently alert to realise an abrupt cessation of footsteps at the bottom of the last flight of stairs.