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Robin

CHAPTER XXII
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Her Dowie knows.

And her left like this!" It was when her thoughts reached this point that the tear would gather in the corner of her eye and would have trickled down her cheek if she had not turned away towards the window.
But above all things she told herself she must present only Dowie's face when she reached Eaton Square.

There were the servants who knew nothing and must know nothing but that Mrs.Dowson had come to take care of poor Miss Lawless who had worked too hard and was looking ill and was to be sent into the country to some retreat her grace had chosen because it was far enough away to allow of her being cut off from war news and work, if her attendants were faithful and firm.

Every one knew Mrs.
Dowson would be firm and faithful.

Then there were the ladies who went in and out of the house in these days.


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