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`` I 'm sure Mrs. Ricketts 's visit must be both , '' Kate said , adroitly bringing back the original theme . `` Very true ; and I was forgetting the dear woman altogether . I suppose you must receive her , Kate ; there 's no help for it ! Say three o'clock , and I 'll sit in the small drawing-room , and , with the gallery and the library between us , I shall not hear her dreadful voice . '' `` Has she such ? '' asked Kate , innocently . `` I 'm sure I do n't know , '' said Lady Hester , pettishly ; `` but of course she has !