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`` Not at all ; it 's only nine o'clock , '' said Mrs. Leighton . She looked up from the card the young lady had given her , and explained , `` We have n't got in our servants yet , and we had to answer the bell ourselves , and -- '' `` You were frightened , of coase , '' said the young lady , caressingly . The gentleman said they ought not to have come so late , and he offered some formal apologies . `` We should have been just as much scared any time after five o'clock , '' Alma said to the sympathetic intelligence in the girl 's face . She laughed out . `` Of coase ! Ah would have my hawt in my moath all day long , too , if Ah was living in a big hoase alone . ''