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`` There is nothing expected , '' was the reply . `` But something may come , although I do not think it in the least degree probable . If it does , I will say you are already in possession ; no harm shall come to you . '' `` I must stay for a little while , for fear of the governor coming back , but I will leave before ten o'clock if that will do ? '' `` That will do , '' said Mrs. Mortomley . What a contagion there is in vice ! As vice , or indeed as worse than vice , Williams regarded these mysteries with which Mrs. Mortomley was evidently _ au courant _ , and yet there seemed a fascination about it all to the butler .