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"Write her a note, asking her leave to come and see her. I think that is what she will like," said Gertrude.
"Why should I give her the trouble of answering me?" Charlotte asked. "She will have to write a note and send it over."
"I don't think she will take any trouble," said Gertrude, profoundly.
"What then will she do?"
"That is what I am curious to see," said Gertrude, leaving her sister with an impression that her curiosity was morbid.
They went to see the Baroness without preliminary correspondence; and in the little salon which she had already created, with its becoming light and its festoons, they found Robert Acton.
