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again to pay thened

at restaurants, over-due club accounts

So she went to the Haverfords alone, and ed very effectually to

snub Mrs Hayden before the rector's very eyes

Mrs Hayden thereupon followed an impulse

"If it were not for Natalie Spencer," she said, following that lady's

sables withI want

to tell you Can we find a corner somewhere?"

And Doctor Haverford had followed her uneasily, behind so habit of drawing her tight veil

down even closer by a contortion of her lower jaw, so that the rector

found hi her chin rather than her eyes

"I want you to know right away, as Marion's clergyiven her jaw a particularly vicious wag and twist

"Of course it is not announced--I don't believe even the Spencers know

it yet I a you now because I kno dearly"--she did

it again--"how dearly interested you are in all your spiritual children

Marion is engaged to Graham Spencer"