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"It would be horrid to disappoint him when he's looked after us so charmingly," said Elaine; "tell him that we are." The Rutland Galleries were crowded, especially in the neighbourhood of the tea-buffet, by a fashionable throng of art-patrons which had gathered to inspect Mervyn Quentock's collection of Society portraits.
On a small table by her side was Mervyn Quentock's portrait of her- -the prophetic symbol of her tragedy; the rich dead harvest of unreal things that had never known life, and the bleak thrall of black unending Winter, a Winter in which things died and knew no re-awakening. Francesca turned to the small envelope lying in her lap; very slowly she opened it and read the short message.
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