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My lady directed me to give the coachman her orders, that the carriage was not to come for Miss Rachel until two o'clock. `Have you more to say?' she asked of the Sergeant, when this had been done.
`Only one thing, your ladyship. If Miss Verinder is surprised at this change in the arrangements, please not to mention Me as being the cause of putting off her journey.'
My mistress lifted her head suddenly from her book as if she was going to say something -- checked herself by a great effort -- and, looking back again at the open page, dismissed us with a sign of her hand.
`That's a wonderful woman,' said Sergeant Cuff, when we were out in the hall again. `But for her self- control, the mystery that puzzles you, Mr. Betteredge, would have been at an end to-night.'
At those words, the truth rushed at last into my stupid old head. For the moment, I suppose I must have gone clean out of my senses. I seized the Sergeant by the collar of his coat, and pinned him against the wall.
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