"She has gone out with her basket and may be gone for hours.
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"She has gone out with her basket and may be gone for hours.
She was half undressed as if she was going to bed when I knocked and she had her hair hanging and I thought by her figure and by something in the look of her eyes that she must be carrying a child.
All her barbed civilities came forth wrong end first.
I'm a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is.
The stone faces on the outer walls stared blindly at the black night for three heavy hours; for three heavy hours, the horses in the stables rattled at their racks, the dogs barked, and the owl made a noise with very little resemblance in it to the noise conventionally assigned to the owl by men-poets.
In the afternoon she began watching for his return--but in vain.
