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Mrs.Bunting pulled herself together with a start, and hurried quickly on.

Bunting would begin to wonder what had happened to her.
She went into the Post Office and handed the form to the young woman without a word.

Margaret, a sensible woman, who was accustomed to manage other people's affairs, had even written out the words: "Will be with you to tea .-- DAISY." It was a comfort to have the thing settled once for all.

If anything horrible was going to happen in the next two or three days--it was just as well Daisy shouldn't be at home.

Not that there was any real danger that anything would happen,--Mrs.Bunting felt sure of that.
By this time she was out in the street again, and she began mentally counting up the number of murders The Avenger had committed.