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"But I'm willing to tell you just one thing, Bunny" here her eyes began to twinkle joyously "I'm going to Mrs. Innitt's to dinner to-morrow night so look out for Norah by Monday." I turned sulkily away. "You know how I feel on that subject," said I. "This business of going into another person's house as a guest and inducing their servants to leave is an infraction of the laws of hospitality.
I secured the desired articles for my mistress, and the next evening she went to Mrs. Innitt's little dinner to Miss Gullet and her fiancé, Lord Dullpate, eldest son of the Duke of Lackshingles, who had come over to America to avoid the scrutiny of the Bankruptcy Court, taking the absurd objects with her. Upon her return at 2 A.M. she was radiant and triumphant.
She has no conversation at all, but her little dinners are the swellest things of the season. Never more than ten people at a time and everything cooked to a turn." "That's just it," said I. "I hear enough at the club to know just what cinches Mrs. Innitt's position. It's her cook, that's what does it. If she lost her cook she'd be Mrs. Outofit.
"I can put in a week of solitude here very comfortably," said I. "The Constant-Scrappes have a very excellent library and a line of reading in Abstract Morals in full calf that I should very much like to get at." "So be it then," said Henriette, with a sigh of relief. "I will take my departure next Saturday after the Innitt's clam-bake on Honk Island.
Innitt's countenance that she was very, very angry. "'Forgive her this time for my sake, Mrs. Innitt, I pleaded. 'After all it is the little surprises that give zest to life." "And you didn't have to use the automobile nut?" I asked, deeply impressed with the woman's ingenuity. "Oh yes," said Henriette. "As dinner progressed I thought it wise to use it to keep Mrs.
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