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Elinor and Patricia were so occupied with the room that she almost escaped reproof, but Patricia, as she turned from admiring the stairway that wound up one side of the studio to a nook in the peaked roof above, caught a very knowing look on her little sister's face which was meant for Bruce, and she pounced on her immediately. There was a general murmur of laughter at this, but the leader stood rigid, awaiting Elinor's reply. "You approved of my reasons before, major. You shall approve of them again. In the meantime, until the trial, let us remain strangers.".
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