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Updated: May 11, 2025

Mrs Mayhew noting his detachment from the Palace group, and quite needlessly alarmed lest politeness should impel him to return to her sought out a strategic seat near the piano; though in truth Honor Desmond's masterly rendering of Chopin's heroic polonaise was, for her, no more than a complicated tumult of sound without sense, and her wrapt expression resulted from the fact that she was debating whether her durzi could possibly reproduce at sight the subtle simplicity of Mrs Desmond's evening gown.

Maud Diver - The Great Amulet