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`` I believe you would take anybody 's part against me , '' Lady Ball had said , and then as a matter of course she had been very cross . The whole of that day was terrible to Miss Mackenzie , and she resolved that nothing said by her cousin should induce her to postpone her departure for another day . In order to insure this by a few minutes ' private conversation with him , and also with the view of escaping for some short time from the house , she walked down to the station in the evening to meet her cousin . The train by which he arrived reached Twickenham at five o'clock , and the walk occupied about twenty minutes . She met him just as he was coming out of the station gate , and at once told him that she had come there for the sake of walking back with him and talking to him . He thanked her , and said that he was very glad to meet her . He also wanted to speak to her very particularly .