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So much for herwonderful disguise. She's left a number. It had been Tom, the twins'daddy, and he'd said could he speak to her, and so he'dgone to fetch her, and then she'd come u 'You've been so kind,' she said, when she joined himdownstairs at the cottage, all three children finally asleep.

'Alec wasn't a verynice man. Such a good friend. And do eat something, you look very pale. But he couldn't.