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"Oh!" said Mr. Longdon a little blankly. Then as if to retrieve his blankness: "But why do you call her Nancy? Wasn't her name Blanche?" "Exactly Blanche Bertha Vanderbank." Mr. Longdon looked half-mystified and half-distressed. "And now she's Nancy Toovey?" Vanderbank broke into laughter at his dismay. "That's what every one calls her." "But why?" "Nobody knows.
"At what time do you start?" "Immediately. I will order the surrey." She left the room, her aunt's eyes following her with a half-mystified, half-baffled expression: Was the girl deeper than she had given her credit for being? Had she miscalculated the depth of the pool after all?
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