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Margery returned home, as she had decided, and resumed her old life at Silverthorn. And seeing her father's animosity towards Jim, she told him not a word of the marriage.
Her inner life, however, was not what it once had been. She had suffered a mental and emotional displacement -- a shock, which had set a shade of astonishment on her face as a permanent thing.