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Is that settled ? '' `` Yes , master . '' `` Very well ; that is all right , and now go to your work . '' And she went out to attend to her duties and at midday she served up her master 's dinner in the little drawing-room with the flowered paper on the walls , and then , when the soup was on the table , she went to tell him . `` Dinner is ready , master . '' He went in , and sat down , looked round , unfolded his table napkin , hesitated for a moment and then in a voice of thunder he shouted : `` Adelaide ! '' She rushed in terribly frightened , for he had shouted as if he meant to murder her .