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"Perhaps there's more about her in the letter," suggested Lowther, who had been listening to all that had been said. "There is," said his step-mother; "but Miss Mee's writing is very trying to the eyes." Montague took the schoolmistress's letter from his wife's hand.
Mavis presented herself here at the expiration of the allotted time, where she found Miss Helen and Miss Annie solemnly seated behind the book-littered table, which stood in the middle of the room. "Pray close the door," said Helen. "Please take a seat," added Annie, when Mavis had obeyed the elder Miss Mee's behest. The girl sat down and wondered what was coming.
"Better let her stay," said Devitt, while Mrs Devitt, seeing the girl's flushed face, recalled the passage in Miss Mee's letter which referred to Mavis's sudden anger. Mrs Devitt hated a display of emotion; she put down Mavis's interference with Lowther's design to bad form.
By way of reply, his father read from Miss Mee's letter: "'In conclusion, I am proud to admit that Miss Keeves has derived much benefit from so many years' association with one who has endeavoured to influence her curriculum with the writin's of the late Mr Ruskin, whose acquaintance it was the writer's inestimable privilege to enjoy.
If a few moments of pleasure are worth purchasing at a cost of many hours of crowded disappointment, it was as well that Mavis was ignorant of the way in which her prospects had been prejudiced by the trend of events at Melkbridge House since Mrs Devitt had replied to Miss Mee's letter.
"Then she's young!" cried Lowther, who was lolling near the window. "'Her name is Mavis Keeves; she is the only daughter of the late Colonel Keeves, who, I believe, before he was overtaken by misfortune, occupied a position of some importance in the vicinity of Melkbridge," read Mrs Devitt from Miss Annie Mee's letter. "Keeves! Keeves!" echoed her husband. "Do you remember him?" asked his wife.
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