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She did it solely to annoy me . '' `` Well , I wonder , '' said Dick . He looked at his watch . It was eleven o'clock . He went out into the hall , picked up a straw hat and walked across the meadow to the thatched cottage on the river-bank . But while he went he was still wondering why in the world Margaret had taken away that harmless little magazine from his father 's writing-table . `` Pettifer 's at the bottom of it , '' he concluded .