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And then luckily that young Nerone Altineri turned up from Rome: he went over to New York to look for a job as an engineer, and Ursula made Fred put him in their iron works." She paused again, and then added abruptly: "Streffy! If you knew how I hate that kind of thing. I'd rather have Nick come in now and tell me frankly, as I know he would, that he's going off with " "With Coral Hicks?"
Susy, that evening, at the head of the dinner table, saw in the breaks between her scudding thoughts the nauseatingly familiar faces of the people she called her friends: Strefford, Fred Gillow, a giggling fool of a young Breckenridge, of their New York group, who had arrived that day, and Prince Nerone Altineri, Ursula's Prince, who, in Ursula's absence at a tiresome cure, had, quite simply and naturally, preferred to join her husband at Venice.
Susy heard Strefford exclaim. She became aware that she had not been listening: stray echoes of names of places and people Violet Melrose, Ursula, Prince Altineri, others of their group and persuasion had vainly knocked at her barricaded brain; what had he been telling her about them? She turned to him and their eyes met; his were full of a melancholy irony. "Susy, old girl, what's wrong?"
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