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Edna stayed and dined with Mrs Highcaed to do so

Arobin also re

The dinner was quiet and uninteresting, save for the cheerful efforts

of Arobin to enliven things Mrs Highcahter from the races, and tried to convey to her what she hadtheeraniu and

noncohcamp was a plain, bald-headed man, who only

talked under cohcamp was full of

delicate courtesy and consideration toward her husband She addressed

most of her conversation to him at table They sat in the library after

dinner and read the evening papers together under the droplight; while

the younger people went into the drawing-roohca upon the piano She seemed to

have apprehended all of the composer's coldness and none of his poetry

While Edna listened she could not help wondering if she had lost her

taste for runted a la down at his slippered feet with tactless concern

It was Arobin who took her ho, and it was late