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In outward circumstances she was his queen, but in her heart she was his slave. She plunged into an orgy of preparation. Mrs. Tolhurst and Mene Tekel and the new girl from Windpumps who now reinforced the household were nearly driven off their legs.
She could not imagine that he had turned into bed and gone to sleep that he did not know she was sitting here waiting for him in the dawn. For a moment she thought of going up and knocking at his door then she heard a thud of footsteps and creaking of boards, which announced that Mene Tekel and Nan Gregory of Windpumps were stirring in their bedroom.
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