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Mrs. Cavendish's expressive mouth, I endeavoured to try and turn the
conversation by saying: "They haven't met yet, have they?"
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Who?"
"Mr. Inglethorp and Miss Howard."
She looked at me in rather a disconcerting manner.
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Do you think it would be such a disaster if they did meet?"
Well, don't you?" I said, rather taken aback.
No." She was smiling in her quiet way. "I should like to see a good flare up.
It would clear the air. At present we are all thinking so much, and saying so
little."
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John doesn't think so," I remarked. "He's anxious to keep them apart."
Oh, John!"
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Something in her tone fired me, and I blurted out:
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Old John's an awfully good sort."
She studied me curiously for a minute or two, and then said, to my great
surprise:
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You are loyal to your friend. I like you for that."
Aren't you my friend too?"
I am a very bad friend."
Why do you say that?"
Because it is true. I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all
about them the next."
I don't know what impelled me, but I was nettled, and I said foolishly and
not in the best of taste:
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