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Oh dear, to think that this should be the end of all our planning and contriving!" During this crescendo of excited and scarcely intelligible utterances the girl had first backed away from Curtis, and then turned, running to open, without knocking, a door on the right of the extreme end of a corridor which divided the suite into two sections.
Curtis did not attempt to stop her.

Whatsoever the outcome, he was committed now to an undertaking from which there was no retreat.