Mills got up and approached the figure at the window.

To my extreme surprise, Mr.Blunt, after a moment of obviously painful hesitation, hastened out after the man with the white hair.
In consequence of these movements I was left to myself and I began to be uncomfortably conscious of it when Dona Rita, near the window, addressed me in a raised voice.
"We have no confidences to exchange, Mr.Mills and I." I took this for an encouragement to join them.

They were both looking at me.

Dona Rita added, "Mr.Mills and I are friends from old times, you know." Bathed in the softened reflection of the sunshine, which did not fall directly into the room, standing very straight with her arms down, before Mills, and with a faint smile directed to me, she looked extremely young, and yet mature.

There was even, for a moment, a slight dimple in her cheek.
"How old, I wonder ?" I said, with an answering smile.
"Oh, for ages, for ages," she exclaimed hastily, frowning a little, then she went on addressing herself to Mills, apparently in continuation of what she was saying before.
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