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Lady Arabella was cold-blooded, and she was prepared to go through all that might be necessary of indifference, and even insult, to become chatelaine of Castra Regis.

In the meantime, she would show no hurry--she must wait.

She might, in an unostentatious way, come to him again.

She knew him now, and could make a keen guess at his desires with regard to Lilla Watford.