I did not look then at her face.
Next moment she caught sight of some envelopes lying on the round marble-topped table in the middle of the hall.

She seized one of them with a wonderfully quick, almost feline, movement and tore it open, saying to us, "Excuse me, I must.

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Do go into the dining-room.
Captain Blunt, show the way." Her widened eyes stared at the paper.