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All right , I 'll look into it . You need n't bother about it any more . '' An approximation to a sniff from Miss Wollaston conveyed the comment that Paula had n't bothered appreciably about it from the beginning , but neither of the others paid any attention to that . As it fell out , John might have spared his labors because at eight o'clock or thereabouts the next morning just as he was sitting down to breakfast , Anthony March came back to repair his omission of the day before and tune the drawing-room piano . A minor domestic detail of that sort would normally have fallen within Lucile 's province , but John decisively took it away from her . `` When I finish breakfast , '' he said , `` I 'll write him a check and take it in to him . '' He added , `` I 'm curious to see what this new discovery of Paula 's looks like . ''