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She stayed therefore no longer than the fiction of dress-fitting required and then with a somewhat strained "good night" passed down the stairs and out of the house. Mary waited, rigid as a statue, until she heard the front gate close, then, the last defence down, she sprang to the dressing table tearing off the paper from the package as a puppy dog might tear the covering from a bone.
The young girl, of late, had made her several flying visits, in the intervals of the usual pre-matrimonial shopping and dress-fitting; she had spoken of the event with a toss of her head, as a matter which, with a wise old friend who viewed things in their essence, she need not pretend to treat as a solemnity. It was for Prince Casamassima to do that.
"Well, the strain of dress-fitting is tremendous. I'm nearly always hungry ravenous for nourishment." "You mean you're out of candy, I suppose?" "Practically. There's hardly a whole piece left. They've all been nibbled." Blake did not know whether to feel amused or ashamed. He was relieved at the girl's apparent carelessness, yet this half-serious engagement had put Myra Nell in a new light.