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Could Mr Kitchener or any other person present have had to do with the matter?

Date of account: Published 1907
Source: Seen and Unseen
Reference: Seen and Unseen · selected passage 37
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Could Mr Kitchener or any other person present have had to do with the matter? In this case my blissful feelings would naturally be merely the result of imagination, and easily disposed of on this ground. So I questioned the little housekeeper when she brought my hot water as to whether it could have been possible for Mr Kitchener or anyone else in the house to have access to a clean sheet or tablecloth, and to have masqueraded in the garden outside my room. She indignantly denied the possibility. "The linen is all locked up by me; besides, no one would have been so wicked. It might have frightened you out of your senses, ma'am! Do you suppose the master would have done such a thing?"

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