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` We shall have a fall of snow , ' said Bessy to me . And sure enough , even while we were in church , it came down thick , in great large flakes , -- so thick , it almost darkened the windows . It had stopped snowing before we came out , but it lay soft , thick and deep beneath our feet , as we tramped home . Before we got to the hall , the moon rose , and I think it was lighter then -- what with the moon , and what with the white dazzling snow -- than it had been when we went to church , between two and three o'clock . I have not told you that Miss Furnivall and Mrs. Stark never went to church ; they used to read the prayers together , in their quiet , gloomy way ; they seemed to feel the Sunday very long without their tapestry-work to be busy at . So when I went to Dorothy in the kitchen , to fetch Miss Rosamond and take her upstairs with me , I did not much wonder when the old woman told me that the ladies had kept the child with them , and that she had never come to the kitchen , as I had bidden her , when she was tired of behaving pretty in the drawing-room . So I took off my things and went to find her , and bring her to her supper in the nursery .