five in the
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`` Did she let her come ? '' said Meta , her cheek glowing . `` As a great favour , she let her set out by the mail train , after dressing her for a ball , with orders to return in time for her toilette for an evening party the next day . '' `` Oh , I remember , '' said Margaret , `` her coming here at five in the morning , and your taking her home . '' `` And when we got to Abbotstoke the brother was dead . That parish nurse had not attended to my directions , and , I do believe , was the cause of it . The mother had had a seizure , and was in the most precarious state . ''