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"It is my most ardent desire to win Myra over, o "Pray convey to herher to receive led amusement and exasperation that Myra listened to

Tony's account of the interview She could not help feeling that Don

Carlos had turned the tables on Tony, and now had it in his power to

make her look ridiculous

"I think he is the most conceited and impudent man in the world," she

coo to Auchinleven, he

will tell the world it is because I a in love with

him If you withdraw your invitation to hiht persuade me to elope with him He will

flatter himself we are both afraid of him, and the affair will become

the joke of the season"

"Yes, I realise that, Myra," drawled Tony "He's got that laugh on us,

so to speak, and I think it would be best to save our faces by

pretending the whole affair was a sort of practical joke on your part

I don't suppose he'll try to ain, and even if he