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Updated: May 9, 2025
Already her mind was dwelling on the details of that ghastly farewell dinner-party and recalling one by one the incidents of ill-omen that had marked it; how they had sat down seven to table and how one liqueur glass in the set of seven had been shivered into fragments; how her glass had slipped from her hand as she raised it to her lips to wish Comus a safe return; and the strange, quiet hopelessness of Lady Veula's "good-bye"; she remembered now how it had chilled and frightened her at the moment.
"At any rate you give them the opportunity," said Comus, cryptically. As the ladies rose to leave the table Comus crossed over to pick up one of Lady Veula's gloves that had fallen to the floor. "I did not know you kept a dog," said Lady Veula. "We don't," said Comus, "there isn't one in the house." "I could have sworn I saw one follow you across the hall this evening," she said.
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