We'll be there at six o'clock then. There was the briefest of hesitations; then, a little constrainedly, Bertram asked: "And you said you—you never had cared for Arkwright, didn't you? This time she put the floor-mat against the casing so that the door could not close. The next moment she read this in Arkwright's peculiar scrawl: "If you've already forgiven the unforgivable, you'll do it again, I know, and come down- stairs. And Kate said—" "Yes.
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