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`` What of your visit and its consequences ? '' Betty told the story ; and her description of the dilapidated parsonage at the head of the miserable village , the group of silent women about the coffin in the dark room , and her interview with her melancholy relative was as dramatic as she had felt at the time . `` I thought I was running from a nightmare when I left the house , '' she concluded , smiling at him as if to demonstrate that it had left no shadow in her brain ; `` but now we both feel better . She wants a gown of many colours , and this morning she roused the house at five o'clock singing camp-meeting hymns . But I think she is quick and observant , and will soon cease to be in any danger of betraying herself . But she is a great responsibility , and I really felt old this morning . '' Senator North laughed .