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 “I suppose so,” was Sidney’s reluctant acquiescence. “Or as ill as anything else, would be a better way to put it.”

Snowdon regarded him with unusual fixedness, and seemed on the point of making some significant remark; but immediately his face expressed change of purpose, and he said, without emphasis:

“Jane must be able to earn her own living.”

Sidney, before going home, walked round to the street in which he had already lingered several times to-day, and where yesterday he had spoken with Clara. The windows of the house he gazed at were dark.