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She was rebuked for fatiguing herself , and again murmured something about family worship . `` We must begin to-morrow , '' said Raymond . `` We have got a chaplain now . '' Julius , however , on entering excused himself , saying that after Sunday he should be at Matins at nine o'clock ; whereupon Anne looked at him in mute astonishment . Raymond , feeling that he ought to cultivate the solitary sister-in - law , began asking about Miles ; but unlike the typical colonist , she was very silent , and her replies were monosyllabic , till Rosamond created a diversion by talking to Frank ; and then Raymond elicited that Glen Fraser was far up the country -- King Williamstown nearer than any other town . They had sent thither for a doctor for Miles , and he stayed one night , but said that mother 's treatment was quite right ; and as it was thirty miles off he did not come again . Thirty miles !