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Resolution.
Having read Mrs.Linley's answer, Mr.Sarrazin looked out of the breakfast-room window, and saw that the fog had reached the cottage.
Before Mrs.Presty could make any remark on the change in the weather, he surprised her by an extraordinary question.
"Is there an upper room here, ma'am, which has a view of the road before your front gate ?" "Certainly!" "And can I go into it without disturbing anybody ?" Mrs.Presty said, "Of course!" with an uplifting of her eye brows which expressed astonishment not unmixed with suspicion.

"Do you want to go up now ?" she added, "or will you wait till you have had your breakfast ?" "I want to go up, if you please, before the fog thickens.

Oh, Mrs.
Presty, I am ashamed to trouble you! Let the servant show me the room." No.

For the first time in her life Mrs.Presty insisted on doing servant's duty.