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`` What utter nonsense , '' declared Kathleen . Yet she frowned her displeasure at the intimation , and immediately held Patience responsible for Miss Rawle 's deflection . She decided to look into the matter that very afternoon and found time to stop and see Alice on her way home from her class . She rang the bell at Livingston Hall a little before five o'clock , only to find that Miss Rawle had not yet come in . The newspaper girl turned her steps toward Wayne Hall , feeling slightly disappointed and vexed . Arrived at the Hall , she slipped upstairs with the cat-like quiet and ease that always characterized her movements . At the door of her room she paused for a moment , listening to the sound of voices that came from within .