A Woman of Consequence

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I promised yesterday that just as soon as I had leisure for writing I should send you a full and satisfactory account of Penelope Lambe’s accident at Madderstone Abbey; and so I shall begin upon it. Though I fear I may have to leave off at any moment, for there is a great deal of needlework to be done for the little boys at school and Margaret has already opened her workbox and begun to look at me with displeasure.

In yesterday’s note I was kind enough to hint at some very peculiar circumstances surrounding Penelope’s fall and I do not doubt that since receiving it you have enjoyed all the apprehensions and heightened imaginings which such hints can supply. And I trust my account will not disappoint you, for it was a very strange business indeed – one which I cannot, yet, understand at all.

The first thing you must know is that it all came about because of the ghost – I mean, of course, the Grey Nun of Madderstone.

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