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Beatrice handed the paper back to Septimus Dorset with mingled feelings. She had read it with horror, for it seemed like a warning to her, from another world, against a danger which already confronted her. Her very flesh crept at the thought that this menace was positively with her, beneath her own roof.
For a moment she had nearly told Septimus her secret, but a suspicion that her lawyer had only told her a part of the truth kept her silent.