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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Wednesday, at the latest, are my orders," she answered merrily, and with the words ringing in his ears Lavendar took his departure. "Do you remember that this is the afternoon of the garden party at Revelsmere?" Mrs. de Tracy enquired, coming into the drawing room a few minutes later, where Mrs. Loring stood by the open window.
"They seemed quite devoted at first," Miss Smeardon began; but Robinette interrupted her. "The sooner such things are forgotten the better, I think," she said. "No one, except the two people concerned, ever knows the real truth. Tell me, Miss Smeardon, whom we are likely to meet at Revelsmere? Who is our hostess? What sort of parties does she give?"
The engagement kept on for quite a year, I believe, and then to break it off so heartlessly! I was reminded of it all by coming here. Miss Meredith is a cousin of our hostess, and they met first at Revelsmere when they were quite young." "There is always a certain amount of talk when an engagement has to be broken off," said Robinette in a cold voice.
Conversation ended here, for the carriage rumbled up the avenue, and Robinette looked about her eagerly. Revelsmere was a nice old house, surrounded by fine sloping lawns and a background of sombre beechwoods. The lawns to-day were dotted with groups of people, mainly women, and elderly at that.
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