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THE narrative leaves Lady Janet and Horace Holmcroft together, and returns to Julian and Mercy in the library.
An interval passed - a long interval, measured by the impatient reckoning of suspense - after the cab which had taken Grace Roseberry away had left the house. The minutes followed each other; and still the warning sound of Horace's