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88  [Closer.] In short, rather like—you?

 [Hesitating.] I dare say there are some who would say so.

 So Freda Michel and Margaret Schiller bear a distinct resemblance to each other?  [Clutching at an idea.] Yes—now that I come to think of it—perhaps they do, sir.  So that if the Commissioner, seeing you, thought you were Margaret Schiller, that might account for it?  [Eagerly.] Yes, that's just what I was thinking, sir.  [Laying dozen paper and taking up letter.] But this is where my difficulty comes in. Although the description of Margaret Schiller is so true to you, you bear no resemblance to the description of Freda Michel.  [Rising, gasping] What description of Freda Michel?

 [Motioning her to sit.] You have heard of my late wife, Lady Margaret Temple?