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Then he waited in vain for sight of Cynthia until , driven to extremes by tea-time , he got one of the maids to take her a verbal message , in which he stated that the climb to the summit of the Yat could be made in half an hour . The reply was deadening . `` Miss Vanrenen says she is busy . She does not intend to leave the hotel to-day ; and will you please have the car ready at eight o'clock to-morrow morning . '' Then Medenham smiled ferociously , for he had just ascertained that the local telegraph office opened at eight . `` Kindly tell Miss Vanrenen that we had better make a start some few minutes earlier , because we have a long day 's run before us , '' he said . And he hummed a verse of `` Young Lochinvar '' as he moved away , thereby provoking the maid-servant to an expression of opinion that some folk thought a lot of themselves -- but as for London shuffers and their manners -- well there !