[The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookThe New Magdalen CHAPTER XIX 23/24
I had my gray cloak on; neither he nor any of them saw me in my nurse's dress.
Inquiries have been made about me on the Continent--and (I happen to know from the person who made them) with no result.
I am safe in your place; I am known by your name.
I am Grace Roseberry; and you are Mercy Merrick. Disprove it, if you can!" Summing up the unassailable security of her false position in those closing words, Mercy pointed significantly to the billiard-room door. "You were hiding there, by your own confession," she said.
"You know your way out by that door.
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