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24 in the doorway of the registration office.

When he got back to his mother's drawing-room the tea-table was still surrounded, and a lady was saying: "I've offered anything for a special train, but they won't listen. " And another, in a stricken whisper: "If they do come, what do you mean to do about your pearls?"