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Updated: August 7, 2024
"To paint the right people at the wrong end may be an eccentricity, but it is scarcely an indiscretion," pronounced Lady Caroline. One of the portraits which attracted more than a passing flutter of attention was a costume study of Francesca Bassington.
"They'll be quite one of the best-looking and most interesting couples of the Season, won't they?" he cried, by way of farewell. The door closed and Francesca Bassington sat alone in her drawing- room. Before she could give way to the bitter luxury of reflection on the downfall of her hopes, it was prudent to take precautionary measures against unwelcome intrusion.
Meanwhile in the prefects' room at the other end of the passage, Comus Bassington and a fellow prefect sat also waiting on time, but in a mood of far more pleasurable expectancy. Comus was one of the most junior of the prefect caste, but by no means the least well- known, and outside the masters' common-room he enjoyed a certain fitful popularity, or at any rate admiration.
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