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She tiptoed very quietly down the stairs and went into the kitchen. Hannah looked at her and her face darkened. “What’s the world comin’ to, that’s what I’d like to know!” she said. “He’s no right to ask you out alone. You know that!” “I do know it, Hannah,” Thalia answered, “but what else could I do? I could not have him upset Mama.” “I suppose you could have insisted that I came with you,” Hannah said grudgingly. Just for a moment Thalia thought that it would be amusing to see the Earl’s reaction to this request. Then she said aloud, “That is what I would like to do, but supposing Mama should wake and find nobody in the house?” “I only hopes as you can manage a man like his Lordship,” Hannah said grimly, “but I doubts it.” Thalia rather doubted it too, but she asked herself what