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"Why shouldn't she?" asked Dion. "She may, of course." "D'you think she'll remain your apanage now?" he asked, with a hint of smiling sarcasm that could not hurt her. "My apanage?" "Hasn't she been something like that?" "Perhaps she has. But Beattie always sinks herself in others. She wouldn't be happy if she didn't do that. Of course, your friend Guy Daventry's in love with Beattie." "Deeply."
Clarke he was more interested than he happened to be in any of the women who dwelt in the great world of those whom he did not love and never could love. Had the dinner-party he had just been to been arranged by Daventry in order that Rosamund and Mrs. Clarke might meet in a perfectly natural way? If so, it must have been Daventry's idea and not Mrs. Clarke's.
Clarke when she was passing through an unpleasant experience; he was Daventry's good friend; he was also a friend of Mrs. Chetwinde and of Esme Darlington; naturally, therefore, Mrs. Clarke was inclined to number him among those who had "stuck to her" when she was being cruelly attacked. Where was the awkwardness in the situation?
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