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Updated: May 26, 2025
We'll make them all think you still are here and while they're dodging about trying to keep away from you we'll slip away together and be at the other end of the house." By a gesture of one hand and with a finger of the other across her lips to impress the need of secrecy, she brought Mrs. Hadley-Smith into the little conspiracy. "Don't blindfold yourself, Claire," she whispered.
Hadley-Smith, to-morrow night has no influence upon you in forming your judgments of these two young women." "I know Miss Ballister has been invited and has accepted. But I think you must be wrong when you say Madame Ybanca is also expected." "When was the last time you saw your cousin?" "The day before yesterday, I think it was, but only for a few minutes."
One room was quite empty, save for decorations; the other contained only a table piled with favours. Even the chairs had been removed, leaving clear spaces along the walls. It was not such a very large party as parties go, for Mrs. Hadley-Smith had a reputation for doing her entertaining on a small but an exceedingly smart scale.
"Watch!" whispered Miss Smith in Miss Ballister's ear. "See how well the trick works. There what did I tell you?" For instantly all the players, deceived by the artifice, were falling back, huddling away from the fancied danger zone as Mrs. Hadley-Smith went toward them.
But by ten, or a little later, most of them were assembled in the big twin drawing-rooms on the first floor of the Hadley-Smith establishment. These two rooms, with the study behind them and the wide reception hall that ran alongside them, took up the most of the first-floor ground space of the town house. As the first arrivals noted, they had been stripped of furniture for dancing.
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