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IV
'Well,' said Winnie, 'after a while Mr. D'Arcy returned and told me
that he was now ready to take me for a stroll across the meadows,
saying, "The doctor told me that, at first, your walks must be short;
so while you go to your room I will get Mrs. Titwing in for my usual
consultation about our frugal meal."
'"My room," I said, "my room, and Mrs. Titwing; who's--"
'"Ha! I quite forgot myself," he said, with an air of vexation,
which he tried, I thought, to conceal. "I will ring for Mrs.
Titwing--the housekeeper--and she will take you to your room."
'He walked towards the bell, but before reaching it he stopped as if
arrested by a sudden thought. Then he said, "I will go to the
housekeeper's room and speak to Mrs. Titwing there. I shall be back
in a minute." And he passed from the room through the door by which
he and I had first entered.
'Scarcely had the door closed behind him before a woman entered by
another door opposite to it. She was about the common height,
slender, and of an extremely youthful figure for a woman of middle
age.
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