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Rh asked Charlie.

Sybil finished her pudding.

she said.

said Mrs. Brancepeth; and it matters hardly at all what one is absorbed in so long as one is absorbed.

Charlie responded to this.

said he.

The evening post came in on this, and not long after Charlie went upstairs to answer certain letters which had come for him, leaving the other two together. Since the arrival of the post, Sybil had become very silent and preoccupied; one letter, in fact, she read three times over, with silent frownings between each perusal. At length she rose, took a turn or two up the room, and spoke.

she said;

said Mrs. Brancepeth.

she said.

said the other.

said Sybil.