This is a pleasant surprise . Sit down -- allow me , this is a much more comfortable chair . Did you come in this morning ? And how is everybody out in Spencervale ? '' The Old Lady had flushed at his first words . To hear the name by which her father and mother and lover had called her on Andrew Cameron 's lips seemed like profanation . But , she told herself , the time was past for squeamishness . If she could ask a favour of Andrew Cameron , she could bear lesser pangs . For Sylvia 's sake she shook hands with him , for Sylvia 's sake she sat down in the chair he offered . But for no living human being 's sake could this determined Old Lady infuse any cordiality into her manner or her words . She went straight to the point with Lloyd simplicity . `` I have come to ask a favour of you , '' she said , looking him in the eye , not at all humbly or meekly , as became a suppliant , but challengingly and defiantly , as if she dared him to refuse . `` DE-lighted to hear it , Cousin Margaret . '' Never was anything so bland and gracious as his tone . `` Anything I can do for you I shall be only too pleased to do . I am afraid you have looked upon me as an enemy , Margaret , and I assure you I have felt your injustice keenly . I realize that some appearances were against me , but -- '' The Old Lady lifted her hand and stemmed his eloquence by that one gesture . `` I did not come here to discuss that matter , '' she said . `` We will not refer to the past , if you please . I came to ask a favour , not for myself , but for a very dear young friend of mine -- a Miss Gray , who has a remarkably fine voice which she wishes to have trained .
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