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CHAPTER XV
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Before Robin1 had been taken to the seaside to be helped by the bracing2 air of the Norfolk coast to recover her lost appetite and forget her small tragedy, she had observed that unaccustomed things were taking place in the house. Workmen came in and out through the mews at the back and brought ladders with them and tools in queer bags. She heard hammerings which began very early in the morning and went on all day. As Andrews had trained her not to ask tiresome3 questions, she only crept now and then to a back window and peeped out. But in a few days Dowson took her away.
When she came back to London, she was not taken up the steep dark stairs to the third floor. Dowson led her into some rooms she had never seen before. They were light and airy and had pretty walls and furniture. A sitting-room4 on the ground floor had even a round window with plants in it and a canary bird singing in a cage.
“May we stay here?” she asked Dowson in a whisper.
“We are going to live here,” was the answer.
And so they did.
At first Feather occasionally took her intimates to see the additional apartments.
“In perfect splendour is the creature put up, and I with a bedroom like a coalhole and such drawing-rooms as you see each time you enter the house!” she broke forth5 spitefully one day when she forgot herself.
She said it to the Starling and Harrowby, who had been simply gazing about them in fevered mystification, because the new development was a thing which must invoke6 some more or less interesting explanation. At her outbreak, all they could do was to gaze at her with impartial7 eyes, which suggested question, and Feather shrugged
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attic
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cynical
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inquiry
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conceal
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bondage
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radical
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lavishness
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automobiles
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innocence
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intimacy
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intercourse
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fatigue
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revert
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spoke
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anguish
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unpacking
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shrillness
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irritable
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intensity
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temperament
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