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Updated: May 26, 2025
Before the ladies left the table, the success and thoroughness of the expedition was proposed with cheers; followed by a second toast, drunk in silence, to the memory of the three men who had been alive in their midst less than a month ago: and later in the evening when the Ollivers, Richardson, and Courtenay were absorbed in whist, and Honor had gone out with Lenox into the garden, where a late moon was rising Desmond lured Quita to the piano at the far end of the room by asking her to sing.
"N . . no," he said at length. "Better stop and play with Dick. When I come back I'll get you up into the trap, old man, and take you for a drive before dinner. Who's coming, Quita? Just the Desmonds and Courtenay?" "Yes; and the Ollivers." "I'm glad. She's good company." "Which is more than I can say of him," Quita remarked, as the door closed behind her husband. "And he takes me in. Poor me!
But she broke away from him, unappeased, and shut herself into her room. She was relieved to find that a sprinkling of the tea party the Ollivers, Norton, and Richardson had stayed to dinner. Olliver was her partner; and evinced his appreciation of the fact by chaffing her laboriously throughout the meal; the one form of conversation she frankly detested.
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