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`` I get a night-letter every morning from Miss French . -LRB- This was Mrs. Ruston 's successor . -RRB- It 's -- everything 's all right . '' `` Good-by , then , till noon , '' she said . And if he could have seen the smile that was on her lips , and the brightness that was in her eyes as she said it ... ! It was a part , you see , of his Quixotic determination to make no claims , that he had not said a word , during his evening call , about the twins -- her babies ! On the stroke of twelve his card was brought to her , and she went out into their bare little waiting-room to meet him .