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I will read it again , and then do you keep it . You should tell Mary at once . It is natural that she should have built hopes on the improbability of Brotherton 's marriage . '' Before noon on that day the news had been disseminated through the house . The old Marchioness , when she first heard of the Italian wife , went into hysterics , and then was partly comforted by reminding herself that all Italians were not necessarily bad . She asked after the letter repeatedly ; and at last , when it was found to be impossible to explain to her otherwise what her eldest son meant about the houses , it was shown to her . Then she began to weep afresh .