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‘A most sensible question,’ said the hostess, with a laugh. ‘Why, indeed?’
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‘It is as I expected,’ Miss Barfoot was saying to her friend in the drawing-room. ‘He has changed very noticeably.’
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‘I fancy he is no longer the man I knew. His manners are wonderfully improved. He used to assert himself in rather alarming ways. His letter, to be sure, had the old tone, or something of it.’
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‘I don’t think there will be any private talk.’
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