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his mother replied . `` But ! ... '' `` You can come and bring me home from wherever we go , '' Mrs. MacDermott continued . Eleanor had suggested that Mrs. MacDermott should meet her at the bookstall and go to her club from which John would fetch her at ten o'clock . `` That 'll do nicely , Eleanor ! '' Mrs. MacDermott said . John hardly noticed that his mother had called Eleanor by her Christian name : it seemed natural that she should do so ; but he was vaguely disturbed by the arrangement that had just been made .