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Night and Day
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It was a Sunday evening in October, and in common with many other young
ladies of her class, Katharine Hilbery was pouring out tea. Perhaps a fifth part of
her mind was thus occupied, and the remaining parts leapt over the little barrier
of day which interposed between Monday morning and this rather subdued
moment, and played with the things one does voluntarily and normally in the
daylight. But although she was silent, she was evidently mistress of a situation
which was familiar enough to her, and inclined to let it take its way for the six
hundredth time, perhaps, without bringing into play any of her unoccupied
faculties. A single glance was enough to show that Mrs. Hilbery was so rich in
the gifts which make tea-parties of elderly distinguished people successful, that
she scarcely needed any help from her daughter, provided that the tiresome
business of teacups and bread and butter was discharged for her.
