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But she'd asked her party before she knew I was arriving." "Oh, as to that " Ide drew a deep breath of relief. "I can understand that it must have been a disappointment not to have you to herself just at first. But, after all, you were among old friends or their children: the Gileses and Fresbies and little Charlotte Wynn." He paused a moment before the last name, and scrutinized her hesitatingly.
She made no reply, and he pressed on: "It can't be that you're worried about Leila, for Charlotte Wynn told me she'd been there last week, and there was a big party arriving when she left: Fresbies and Gileses, and Mrs. Lorin Boulger all the board of examiners! If Leila has passed that, she's got her degree." Mrs.
I shall be glad to see Mary Giles again. It must be eighteen years," said Mrs. Lidcote steadily. "Yes," Miss Suffern gasped, precipitately refilling her cup. "The Ashton Gileses; and who else?" "Well, the Sam Fresbies. But the most important person, of course, is Mrs. Lorin Boulger." "Mrs. Boulger? Leila didn't tell me she was coming." "Didn't she? I suppose she forgot everything when she saw you.
And finding the Gileses and Fresbies here will make it all right. The times have changed!" Susy Suffern indulgently summed up. Mrs. Lidcote smiled. "Yes; a few years ago it would have seemed improbable that I should ever again be dining with Mary Giles and Harriet Fresbie and Mrs. Lorin Boulger."
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