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Rh  What inference?  That she has been watching her opportunity, and now that the time seems to her to be ripe she has returned to say so.

 Then you think the outrage, whatever it is, is to be perpetrated soon?  We do.  To-night, perhaps?  Perhaps to-night.  You don't know who is the object of it?  Not certainly.  My child possibly?  Possibly.  Or myself?  More probably. Somebody or something in this house at all events.