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The name was that of Mr. C. Julian . Replacing it again , he looked ahead , and some time after murmured with wily mirth , ` An excellent test -- a lucky thought ! ' Nothing of importance occurred during the intervening days . At two o'clock on the appointed afternoon Ethelberta stepped from the train at Melchester with the viscount , who had met her as proposed ; she was followed behind by Picotee . The concert was to be held at the Town-hall half-an-hour later . They entered a fly in waiting , and secure from recognition , were driven leisurely in that direction , Picotee silent and absorbed with her own thoughts . ` There 's the Cathedral , ' said Lord Mountclere humorously , as they caught a view of one of its towers through a street leading into the Close .