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Rh The explanation seemed to satisfy her. Turning to me suddenly, she exclaimed:

"You have not had your dinner, Lizzie, and must be hungry. I nearly forgot about it in the joy of seeing you. You must go down to the table right away." She pulled the bell-rope, and a servant appearing, she ordered him to give me my dinner. I followed him down-stairs, and he led me into the dining-hall, and seated me at a table in one corner of the room. I was giving my order, when the steward came forward and gruffly said: "You are in the wrong room." "I was brought here by the waiter," I replied. "It makes no difference; I will find you another place where you can eat your dinner." I got up from the table and followed him, and when outside of the door, said to him: "It is very strange that you should permit me to be seated at the table in the dining-room only