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Mr. Pembroke did not receive a clear account of what had happened when he returned for the interval. His sister -- he told her frankly -- was concealing something from him. She could make no reply. Had she gone mad, she wondered. Hitherto she had pretended to love her husband. Why choose such a moment for the truth?
"But I understand Rickie's position," he told her. "It is an unbalanced position, yet I understand it; I noted its approach while he was ill. He imagines himself his brother's keeper. Therefore we must make concessions. We must negotiate. " The negotiations were still progressing in November, the month during which this story draws to its close.