Grimshaw while the boys were out in the yard when the calamity broke out. The shouting, yelling and—what was that yappy noise?—came through the window in such a burst that both he and Grimshaw sprang to their feet and made for the window that looked out onto the grass. There, with her back to him in a circle of noisy boys, stood an impeccably dressed woman. A small white creature ran in crazed circles at her feet. When the woman turned toward the animal, Daniel was shocked to recognize the visitor as none other than Isabelle Hooper. MacNeil, who had evidently just let her in through the visitors’ gate, stood beside her with a baffled expression on his face. Mrs. Hooper, it seemed, was here with her dog—if that indeed was what that thing was. Mother had told him stories of Chester the ridiculously coddled poodle, but he’d never met the animal—until now. “A dog?” Grimshaw balked, scratching his forehead. “Someone’s brought a dog?”
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