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The Law and the Lady

CHAPTER III
13/19

Some fallen fragments of chalk offered us a seat.

I vaguely heard the voluble landlady's expressions of sympathy and regret; I mechanically took the smelling-bottle which my husband's mother offered to me, after hearing my name, as an act of kindness to a stranger.
If I had only had myself to think of, I believe I should have provoked an explanation on the spot.

But I had Eustace to think of.

I was entirely ignorant of the relations, hostile or friendly, which existed between his mother and himself.

What could I do?
In the meantime the old lady was still speaking to me with the most considerate sympathy.


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