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`` And if they should hear Lemuel 's name , and put two and two together , and the talk should get to Sibyl -- well , I thought it all over , until the whole thing became perfectly lurid , and I wished Lemuel Barker was back in the depths of Willoughby Pastures -- '' `` I understand , '' said Sewell . `` Go on ! '' Miss Vane did so , after stopping to laugh . `` It seemed to me I could n't wait for Sibyl to get home -- she spent the night in Brookline , and did n't come till five o'clock -- to tell her . I began before she had got her hat or gloves off , and she sat down with them on , and listened like a three-years ' child to the Ancient Mariner , but she lost no time when she understood the facts . She went out immediately and stripped the nasturtium bed . If you could have seen it when you came in , there 's hardly a blossom left .