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"His hat had a wide brim, you mean? and his face was pale  a youngish face?" Mary pressed her, with a white lipped intensity of interrogation. But if the kitchen maid found any adequate answer to this challenge, it was swept away for her listener down the rushing current of her own convictions. HIS HAT HAD A WIDE BRIM YOU MEAN AND HIS FACE WAS PALE A YOUNGISH FACE MARY PRESSED HER WITH A WHITE LIPPED INTENSITY OF INTERROGATION BUT IF THE KITCHEN MAID FOUND ANY ADEQUATE ANSWER TO THIS CHALLENGE IT WAS SWEPT AWAY FOR HER LISTENER DOWN THE RUSHING CURRENT OF HER OWN CONVICTIONS
, from which she was rescued by Trimmle, who, by means of ingenious circumlocutions, elicited the statement that before she could cross the hall to the back passage she had heard the gentlemen behind her, and had seen them go out of the front door together. "Then, if you saw the gentleman twice, you must be able to tell me what he looked like." But with this final challenge to her powers of expression it became clear that the limit of the kitchen-maid's endurance had been reached. The obligation of going to the front door to "show in" a visitor was in itself so subversive of the fundamental order of things that it had thrown her faculties into hopeless disarray, and she could only stammer out, after various panting efforts at evocation, "His hat, mum, was different-like, as you might say--" "Different? How different?" Mary flashed out at her, her own mind, in the same instant, leaping back to an image left on it that morning, but temporarily lost under layers of subsequent impressions. ED THE WITNESS INTO A MOMENTARY INARTICULATENESS FROM WHICH SHE WAS RESCUED BY TRIMMEL WHO BY MEANS OF INGENIOUS CIRCUMLOCUTIONS ELICITED THE STATEMENT THAT BEFORE SHE COULD CROSS THE HALL TO THE BACK PASSAGE SHE HAD HEARD THE TWO GENTLEMEN BEHIND HER AND HAD SEEN THEM GO OUT OF THE FRONT DOOR TOGETHER THEN IF YOU SAW THE STRANGE GENTLEMAN TWICE YOU MUST BE ABLE TO TELL ME WHAT HE LOOKED LIKE BUT WITH THIS FINAL CHALLENGE TO HER POWERS OF EXPRESSION IT BECAME CLEAR THAT THE LIMIT OF THE PITCHEN MAID'S ENDURANCE HAD BEEN REACHED THE OBLIGATION OF GOING TO THE FRONT DOOR TO SHOW IN A VISITOR WAS IN ITSELF SO SUBVERSIVE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ORDER OF THINGS THAT IT HAD THROWN HER FACULTIES INTO HOPELESS DISARRAY AND SHE COULD ONLY STAMMER OUT AFTER VARIOUS PANTING EFFORTS HIS HAT MUM WAS DIFFERENT LIKE IF YOU MIGHT SAY DIFFERENT HOW DIFFERENT MARY FLASHED OUT HER OWN MIND IN THE SAME INSTANT LEAPING BACK TO AN IMAGE LEFT ON IT THAT MORNING AND THEN LOST UNDER LAYERS OF SUBSEQUENT IMPRESSIONS
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