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'Really? said Miss Levering. 'I hadn't heard 'She is rather bad, I'm afraid. We are taking over another of her guests. Of course you know him Geoffrey Stonor. 'Taking him over? Miss Levering repeated. 'Yes; he was originally going to Bishopsmead this week-end, but as he's been promising for ages to come here, it's been arranged that we should take him off their hands.
A great business it is, Lady John explained to Lord Borrodaile, 'each time to get that crusty old Covenanter, Jean's grandfather, to allow her to stay at Bishopsmead. So it's the sadder for them to have her visit cut short. 'Why is it cut short? he asked. 'Because the hostess took to her bed yesterday with a chill, and her temperature was a hundred and one this afternoon.
I saw that once before. 'Once before? she echoed. He reminded her of the time she hurried away from Ulland House to Bishopsmead. 'I wasn't deceived, he said, with his look of smiling malice. 'You didn't care two pins about your Cousin Mary and her influenza. Vida moved her expressionless face a little to the right. 'I can see Sophia.
Borrodaile and his companion kept at Lady John's side. 'I'm glad, said Vida, 'that I shall at last make acquaintance with your Jean. 'Yes; it's odd your never having met, especially as she knows your cousins at Bishopsmead so well. 'I've been so little in England 'Yes, I know.
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