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She felt quite grateful . There arose in her mind an impulse to invite Emily Fox-Seton to remain the rest of her life with her , but she was too experienced an elderly lady to give way to impulses . She privately resolved , however , that she would have her a good deal in South Audley Street , and would make her some decent presents . When Emily Fox-Seton , attired for her walk in her shortest brown linen frock and shadiest hat , passed through the hall , the post-boy was just delivering the midday letters to a footman . The servant presented his salver to her with a letter for herself lying upon the top of one addressed in Lady Claraway 's handwriting `` To the Lady Agatha Slade . '' Emily recognised it as one of the epistles of many sheets which so often made poor Agatha shed slow and depressed tears . Her own letter was directed in the well-known hand of Mrs. Cupp , and she wondered what it could contain .