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The rustling dress, the shadowy figure melting in the obscurity of the rain-blotted landscape had belonged to Margaret Wilmot! "Mr. Carter came in while I was still pondering over my mother's letter. "'I'm off, he said, briskly. 'Will you settle the bill, Mr. Austin? I suppose you'd like to be with me to the end of this business. You'll go down to Maudesley Abbey with me, won't you?
Or if it were the stranger's evil fate to come in wet weather, he saw only a rain-blotted landscape the blurred outlines of grey mountain peaks, scowling at him from the other side of a grey pool.
For, rehearsing this same meeting during those rain-blotted days of waiting at Perugia, imagination had presented Dickie as the inexperienced, tender-hearted, sweet-natured lad she had known and beguiled at Brockhurst four years earlier. As has already been stated her meetings with him, since then, had been brief and infrequent. Now she perceived that imagination had played a silly trick upon her.
And then as the eyes of the mind recalled these vivid images her bodily eyes looked out upon the rain-blotted scene, the mountains rising in a dark and dismal circle round that sombre pool below, walling her in from the outer world. 'I am at the bottom of a grave, she said to herself. 'I am in a living tomb, from which there is no escape. Forty years! Forty years of patience and hope, for what?
Her breath was warm in a mesh of hair beneath her cheek; she was too sleepy to put it away. She was wakened next morning by the maid. Her curtains were drawn and a dull light from a rain-blotted world was in the room. The maid brought a note to her bedside. From Mr. Augustine, she said. Amabel raised herself to hold the sheet to the light and read: "Dear mother," it said.
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