'Some guests arrived next day, and when I pleaded headache Mr. D'Arcy
said, "Perhaps you would rather keep to your own room to-day."
'I told him I should, and I spent the day alone--spent it mainly in
thinking about the tall woman. In the evening I went into the garden,
and remained there for a long time, but no tall woman made her
appearance.
'I passed out through the wicket into the home close, and as I walked
about in the grass, under the elms that sprang up from the tall
hedge, I thought and thought over what I had seen, but could come to
no explanation. I was standing under a tree, in the shadow which its
branches made, when I became suddenly conscious that the tall woman
was close to me. I turned round, and stood face to face with Sinfi
Lovell. The sight of a spectre could not have startled me more, but
the effect of my appearance upon her was greater still. Her face took
an expression that seemed to curdle my blood, and she shrieked,
"Father! the curse! Let his children be vagabonds and beg their
bread; let them seek it also out of desolate places.
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