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"Now, all this is very remarkable," Gilbert said. "And if you knew what was in the back of my mind you would see how it all tends to prove my theory. But you must agree, in any case, that we have some exceedingly clever people to deal with. I take it from what you say that that woman would deny that she had ever met you before. I suppose she hasn't left Minchin Common? I mean, she hasn't faded gracefully away, or made some excuse for quitting the neighbourhood?"
"Oh, dear, no," Stagg said. "She's not that class of woman at all. If I were to tackle her, she would tell me at once that I had made a mistake. I understood her to say she had just come from Paris, and she had fallen so violently in love with Minchin golf links that she had made up her mind to take a furnished house down there for the summer."