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When at last
there was a free space, she began: "Raymond, I wish to know whether
you mean me to be set at naught, and my friends deliberately
insulted?"
"What?"
A gentleman here hurried up with "I'll not detain you a minute."
He did, however, keep them for what seemed a great many, to the
chafing spirit which thought a husband should have no ears save for
his wife's wrongs; so she made her preface even more startling--
"Raymond, I cannot remain in the house any longer with Lady Rosamond
Charnock and those intolerable brothers of hers!"
"Perhaps you will explain yourself," said Raymond, almost relieved
by the evident exaggeration of the expressions.
"There has been a conspiracy to thwart and insult me--a regular
conspiracy!"
"Cecil! let me understand you. What can have happened?"
"When I arranged an evening for my friends to meet Mrs. Tallboys, I
did not expect to have it swamped by a pack of children, and noisy
nonsensical games, nor that both she and I should be insulted by
practical jokes and a personal charade."
"A party to meet Mrs.


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