TWO:Felipa could be untruthful with an untroubled soul and countenance to those she disliked. In her inherited code, treachery to an enemy was not only excusable, but right. But not even in order to save her husband worry could she tell him a shadow of an untruth. She did her best, which was far from good, to evade, however. The others would probably come, now that he could see them.
TWO:Landor asked what he meant by that. "I'm sick of all this speaking in riddles," he said.It was characteristic of Felipa that she forgot him altogether and reread the letter, her breath coming in audible gasps.
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TWO:"To have brought an abandoned woman into our home."He lay thinking for a while, then had her send the striker for Ellton, who promptly, and awkwardly, replied to the anxious question as to what might be the trouble, that he was not quite sure, but perhaps it had to do with these—"these" being a small roll of newspaper clippings he took from his portfolio.