It is impossible that a deaf mute could play like that . '' `` Oh , she is n't deaf , Master , '' responded Mrs. Williamson , looking at Eric keenly through her spectacles . She picked up her knitting and fell to work again . `` That is the strange part of it , if anything about her can be stranger than another . She can hear as well as anybody and understands everything that is said to her . But she ca n't speak a word and never could , at least , so they say . The truth is , nobody knows much about her . Janet and Thomas never speak of her , and Neil wo n't either . He has been well questioned , too , you can depend on that ; but he wo n't ever say a word about Kilmeny and he gets mad if folks persist . '' `` Why is n't she to be spoken of ? '' queried Eric impatiently . `` What is the mystery about her ? '' `` It 's a sad story , Master . I suppose the Gordons look on her existence as a sort of disgrace . For my own part , I think it 's terrible , the way she 's been brought up . But the Gordons are very strange people , Mr. Marshall . I kind of reproved father for saying so , you remember , but it is true . They have very strange ways . And you 've really seen Kilmeny ? What does she look like ?
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