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` Yes ; it was on her mother 's account that she refused , and of course her office must not be invaded in business hours . ' ` I might call on her there before she goes home , ' suggested Gillian , seeing daylight . ` You can not be walking down there at dusk , just as the workmen come away ' exclaimed Aunt Ada , making the colour so rush into Gillian 's cheeks that she was glad to catch up a screen . ` No , ' said Miss Mohun emphatically ; ` but I could leave her there at five o'clock , and go to Tideshole to take old Jemmy Burnet his jersey , and call for her on the way back . ' ` Or she could walk home with me , ' murmured the voice behind the screen . Gillian felt with dismay that all these precautions as to her escort would render her friend more scrupulous than ever as to her visits . To have said , ` I have several times been at the office , ' would have been a happy clearance of the ground , but her pride would not bend to possible blame , nor would she run the risk of a prohibition .