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At the same moment he started at the sound of a shuffling footstep in the passage. Somebody tapped at the door. "Yes?" said Prudence. "Can't find the knife-powder, miss," said a harsh voice. The door was pushed open and disclosed a tall, bony woman of about forty. Her red arms were bare to the elbow, and she betrayed several evidences of a long and arduous day's charing.
Afterwards he would be strangely silent and drink brandy out of a wine-glass. "Call these knives clean?" It would be Dan's turn. "Yes, I do." Dan would draw his finger across one, producing chiaro-oscuro. "Not if you go fingering them. Why don't you leave them alone and go on with your own work?" "You've just wiped them, that's all." "Well, there isn't any knife-powder." "Yes, there is."
At the same moment he started at the sound of a shuffling footstep in the passage. Somebody tapped at the door. "Yes?" said Prudence. "Can't find the knife-powder, miss," said a harsh voice. The door was pushed open and disclosed a tall, bony woman of about forty. Her red arms were bare to the elbow, and she betrayed several evidences of a long and arduous day's charing.
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