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A quarter of an hour later Miss Clara Stegg took up the contract again and read the closely-printed clauses very carefully . When she had finished she said : `` I just hate the idea of that fellow making money . '' `` You 've said that before , '' said her sister tartly . At six o'clock that evening Bones went home . At nine o'clock he was sitting in his sitting-room in Clarges Street -- a wonderful place , though small , of Eastern hangings and subdued lights -- when Hamilton burst in upon him ; and Bones hastily concealed the poem he was writing and thrust it under his blotting-pad . It was a good poem and going well . It began : How very sweet Is Marguerite !