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"I suppose she flattered him," Miss Van Vluyck summed up "or else it's the way she does her hair." The dimensions of Miss Van Vluyck's dining-room having restricted the membership of the club to six, the nonconductiveness of one member was a serious obstacle to the exchange of ideas, and some wonder had already been expressed that Mrs.
"Surely," she said, "I understood from Mrs. Roby herself that the subject was one it was as well not to go into too deeply?" Miss Van Vluyck rejoined with precision: "I think that applied only to an investigation of the origin of the of the "; and suddenly she found that her usually accurate memory had failed her. "It's a part of the subject I never studied myself/," she concluded.
Laura Glyde bent toward them with widened eyes. "And yet it seems doesn't it? the part that is fullest of an esoteric fascination?" "I don't know on what you base that," said Miss Van Vluyck argumentatively. "Well, didn't you notice how intensely interested Osric Dane became as soon as she heard what the brilliant foreigner he WAS a foreigner, wasn't he? had told Mrs.
"Oh " said Miss Van Vluyck, on the verge of disapproval; and Mrs. Plinth protested: "I understood there was to be no indelicacy!" Mrs. Ballinger could not control her irritation. "Really, it is too bad that we should not be able to talk the matter over quietly among ourselves. Personally, I think that if one goes into Xingu at all " "Oh, so do I!" cried Miss Glyde.
Plinth was the first to compose her features to an air of reassurance: after a moment's hasty adjustment her look almost implied that it was she who had given the word to Mrs. Ballinger. "Xingu, of course!" exclaimed the latter with her accustomed promptness, while Miss Van Vluyck and Laura Glyde seemed to be plumbing the depths of memory, and Mrs.
At length Mrs. Plinth, after visibly labouring with the problem, said in a heavy tone: "Osric Dane was taken in too." Mrs. Leveret took courage at this. "Perhaps that's what Mrs. Roby did it for. She said Osric Dane was a brute, and she may have wanted to give her a lesson." Miss Van Vluyck frowned. "It was hardly worth while to do it at our expense."
At length, Mrs. Plinth, after visibly labouring with the problem, said in a heavy tone: "Osric Dane was taken in too." Mrs. Leveret took courage at this. "Perhaps that's what Mrs. Roby did it for. She said Osric Dane was a brute, and she may have wanted to give her a lesson." Miss Van Vluyck frowned. "It was hardly worth while to do it at our expense."
It's too preposterous," Miss Glyde exclaimed. "Listen." Miss Van Vluyck had repossessed herself of the Encyclopaedia, and restored her spectacles to a nose reddened by excitement.
It's too preposterous," Miss Glyde exclaimed. "Listen." Miss Van Vluyck had repossessed herself of the Encyclopaedia, and restored her spectacles to a nose reddened by excitement.
There was an awkward silence, during which Mrs. Ballinger, with a perfunctory hand, rearranged the skilfully grouped literature at which her distinguished guest had not so much as glanced; then Miss Van Vluyck tartly pronounced: "Well, I can't say that I consider Osric Dane's departure a great loss." This confession crystallised the fluid resentment of the other members, and Mrs.
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