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Tell him to come here and wait for me if it 's all day . If you fail to catch him by telephone , go out and look for him and bring him here . '' In a moment he was hurrying toward Mrs. Owen 's . The dome was a great blot against the stars when , shortly after eight o'clock that evening , Sylvia entered the capitol . All night , in the room she had occupied on that far day of her first visit to Mrs. Owen , Sylvia had pondered . It is not for us to know what passed in that still chamber between her and her friend ; but it was the way of both women to meet the truth squarely . They discussed facts impersonally , dispassionately , and what Sylvia had assumed , her old friend could not controvert .