Chapter 2.

Mr. Godfrey followed the announcement of his name, as Mr. Godfrey does everything else,

exactly at the right time.

He was not so close on the servant's heels as to startle us.

He was not so far behind as to cause us the double inconvenience of a pause and an open

door.

It isn't the completeness of his daily life that the true Christian appears, the steer

man, was very complete.

Putamis Verinder, said my aunt, addressing the servant, and tell her Mr. Abelway is here.

We both inquired after his health.

We both asked him together whether he felt like himself again after his terrible adventure

of the past week.

With perfect tact he contrived answers at the same moment.

Lady Verinder had his reply in words, I had his charming smile.

What, he cried with infinite tenderness, have I done to deserve all this sympathy?

My dear aunt, my dear Miss Clack, I have merely been mistaken for somebody else.

I have only been blindfolded.

I have only been strangled.

I have only been thrown flat on my back on a very thin carpet, covering a particularly hard

floor.

Just think how much worse it might have been.

I might have been murdered.

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