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'You didn't see anything of my brother and his wife? asked Lord Borrodaile. 'Oh, yes, his host suddenly remembered. 'I thought the Freddys were coming by that four-thirty as well as 'No nobody but me. She threw her many-tailed boa on the back of the chair that Paul Filey had drawn up for her between the hostess and the place where Borrodaile had been sitting.
'Well, do you know, ever since that Sunday at the Freddys', when you told us about the Suffragettes, I I've been curious about them. 'You said nothing would ever induce you to listen to such people. 'I know, and it's rather silly, but one says a thing like that on the spur of the moment, and then one is bound by it. 'You mean one imagines one is bound.
Out of a little chorus of regret, came Borrodaile's slightly mocking, 'Anything wrong with the precious children? 'She didn't mention the children nor much of anything else just a hurried line. 'The children were as merry as grigs yesterday, said Vida, looking at their uncle across the table. 'I went on to the Freddys' after the Royal Academy. No! she put her cup down suddenly.
'Then, too, I've been in Scotland ever since; but I've often thought about you and what you said that day at the Freddys'! 'And yet you've been a good deal absorbed 'You see, the girl put on a pretty little air of superiority, 'it isn't as if the man I'm going to marry wasn't very broad-minded. He wants me to be intelligent about politics.
A moment later her gay look fell. 'What? Not Aunt Lydia! Oh-h! She glanced back reproachfully at Lady John, to find her making a discreet motion of 'I couldn't help it! as the party from the garden came in. The greetings of the Freddys were cut short by Mrs. Heriot, who embraced her niece with a significant warmth. 'I wasn't surprised, she said sotto voce. 'I always prophesied
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