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When Victoria reappeared Felicia was motionless as before , but there was a first streak of colour in her thin , cheeks , and a queer brightness in her eyes . Faversham was sitting in his Pengarth office , turning over the morning 's post . He had just ridden in from the Tower . Before him lay a telephone message taken down for him by his clerk , before his arrival : `` Lord Tatham will be at Mr. Faversham 's office by 12:30 . He wishes to speak to Mr. Faversham on important business . '' Something , no doubt , to do with the right-of-way proceedings to which Tatham was a party ; or , possibly , with a County Council notice which had roused Melrose to fury , to the effect that some Threlfall land would be taken compulsorily for allotments under a recent Act , if the land were not provided by arrangement . `` Perfectly reasonable !