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Updated: May 27, 2025
He thrust her into a hansom and got in after her, and then it was as she drove along with him that she recovered a little what had happened. Face to face with them in the gardens he had seen them, and there had been a moment of checked concussion during which, in a glare of black eyes and a toss of red plumage, Mrs. Cuddon had recognised them, ejaculated and vanished.
After which, either from the effect of having said so much or from that of a sudden glimpse of the impossibility of saying more, she felt an embarrassment and sought refuge in a minor branch of the subject. "I thought she was Mrs. Cuddon." Beale's gaiety rather increased than diminished. "You mean my wife did? My dear child, my wife's a damned fool!"
Beale time to leap, under her breath, to a recognition which Maisie caught. "It must be Mrs. Cuddon!" Maisie looked at Mrs. Cuddon hard her lips even echoed the name. What followed was extraordinarily rapid a minute of livelier battle than had ever yet, in so short a span at least, been waged round our heroine.
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