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"I shall tell him it did not," she says, rather dolefully, to herself, "but it was not Marcia's fault. Everything was charming and picturesque." "Do you know," asks Eugene, at dinner, "that we are invited to the Dyckmans' this evening." "I had forgotten it, and I ought to have sent regrets. But you will go?" and she glances up with animation. "It will be no end of a bore without you."
Kedzie was not half so afraid as the elder Dyckmans were; for she had her youth and her beauty, and they were only a plain, fat old rich couple whose last remaining son had been stolen from them by a stranger who might take him from them altogether or fling him back at their feet with a ruined heart.
She was not so barbaric as they had feared, but they knew nothing of her past or of her. It is not good manners to deal in personal questions; yet how else could such strangers come to know one another? The Dyckmans were afraid to quiz her about herself, and she dared not cross-examine them. They had no common acquaintances or experiences to talk over.
Their eyes rolled together and clashed, as it were, like cannon-balls meeting. Dyckman senior dropped back into his chair and whistled "Whew!" Then he laughed a little: "Well, I'm sure we should be proud of our alliance with the fifth largest industry. The Dyckmans are coming up in the world." "Hush!" said Mrs. Dyckman. She was thinking of the laugh that rival mothers would have on her.
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