Excerpt from Apprentices to Destiny

The clock ticked on, mentioning deprecatingly that the seconds were running into long minutes, though really it didn't matter in the least, but Joyce did not move again until a side door opened and her father, girding his dress ing-gown with a silken cord, came into the room. Then she dropped her papers to lean back and look at him, silently, with a quizzical smile.

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