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Your plans for the afternoon are, I presume, already made!" "It may not concern me directly," he answered, "but I have an idea that Mr. Englehall is not exactly the sort of person I care to have you driving about with." She laughed hardly. "I am most flattered by your interest in me," she declared. "Pray consider Mr. Englehall disposed of. You have some other plans, perhaps?"
Hester, looking like a ghost, took him at once to her room. He was haggard and weary with rapid travelling, and he sank into a chair. "Tell me the worst!" he said. "She started with Mr. Englehall about mid-day," Hester said. "They had luggage, but I explained that he was going to Paris, she was coming back by train. At two o'clock we were rung up on the telephone.
His eyes met Hester's. "Who knows this?" he asked, hoarsely. "No one! They had not been gone two hours. I explained everything." Then Mannering read on. "My dear Husband: "I call you that for the last time, for I am going off with Englehall to Paris. Don't be too shocked, and don't despise me too much. I am just a very ordinary woman, and I'm afraid I've bad blood in my veins.
She looked at him curiously. "Mr. Englehall has asked me to go out in his car," she said. "I am rather tired of motoring, but I think I shall go." Mannering lit a cigarette which he had just taken from his case. "I don't think I should," he remarked. She turned her head slowly, and looked at him. "Why not?" she asked. "How can it concern you?
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