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She sat up until twelve o'clock , watching and waiting , and went to bed . `` If something had happened they would let me know , '' she said to herself . `` He must have taken out some party and been detained . He will surely come back by to-morrow noon . '' But the morrow came , and the morning passed slowly by without any one coming near the distressed woman . After dinner she could bear the suspense no longer . Dressing up and putting on her bonnet , she started out to walk to Glen Arbor .