Her Faithful Knight — page 209: what you’re looking at

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_—- = CHAPTER XX. A SHADOW ON THE WINDOW. Fully four months after their sudden and mysterious “flitting,” on a bitterly cold night in early January, the three women who formed the household of 4 Lockhart Cottages, crept back into their former home like mice to their hole. For the one quarter Dorothy had been fortunate enough to let the place furnished, while she and Phyllis had re- mained in hiding at the house of a widowed sister of Cres- well, who kept a tiny shop at Acton. But Phyllis was restless and longed to be back in their old home, and Doro- thy, extremely anxious about her sister’s health, wished to be near Dr. Morgan. Then, too, Creswell and her widowed sister constantly quarreled. The old servant, who was all unselfishness and devotion to her young mis- tress, was totally unable to get on with her own relations, who considered her “crabbed” and “faddy.” A piece of luck, also, which had fallen in Dorothy’s way, drew her back to the neighborhood of the Hammersmith road. An advertisement brought her into communication with an elderly lady writer, whose sight was bad and who required an amanuensis for several hours every evening, and as this person lived in one of the immense blocks of red brick flats contiguous to Lockhart Cottages and was prepared to pay twenty-five shillings a week for a secretary’s ser- vice, Dorothy decided that, considering all the circum- stances, it was time for them to make a move back to the cComicbooks (<(0)