The Alchemist's Daughter (2014)
“Ho! let the door be lock’d — William Shakespeare, Hamlet Emma was scrubbing the hearthstone on her hands and knees. With both Dr. Quince and the young mistress out of the way, what better chance to give the cottage a good turn-out?
Behind her, the front door opened and closed. She reached out for the poker, and scrambling to her feet she turned with it raised to strike. “Oh,” she said, letting the poker fall to her side. “It’s you. Have you not manners enough to knock?”
“Forgive me if I startled you. The door was unlatched.”
“Still no reason to walk in as though you owned the place. And why are you here at all, and not in London?”
“I’ll not be staying. There are some papers I’ve been sent to fetch.”
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