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in her own room, and it has gone to my heart to hear it. I'd give the best suit I ever had to my back, that my young master were returned.

Humphry is a long time gone.

An hour and twenty minutes.

Only an hour and twenty minutes! But you have reckoned the time with a more composed mind than we have done: perhaps you may be right.

My watch has reckoned it, Madam, which is more composed than any of us.

Would he were returned!

Shall I go after him?

That would do no good. Open the street door, and listen if there be any footsteps coming. ( opens the door and listens.) Do you hear any thing?

Yes, I do hear footsteps.