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All unconscious of the slur just cast upon her forty years of / single-minded devotion to the Van Gorder family, Lizzie chose that / particular moment to open the door and make a little bob at her / mistress and the detective.
"The gentleman's room is ready," she said meekly. In her mind she was / already beseeching her patron saint that she would not have to show the / gentleman to his room. Her ideas of detectives were entirely drawn from / sensational magazines and her private opinion was that Anderson might / have anything in his pocket from a set of terrifying false whiskers to / a bomb!