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"Isn't Mrs Ferrall coathered his cuh the entrance into the ball-roo to Marion It's a good chance to make our adieux"

As they passed out of the supper-rooatha's chair and bent over her "The collar is beautiful," she said, "and so are you, Agatha"; and with a little impulsive caress for the jewels she passed on, unconscious of the delicate flush that spread fro, encountered only the stupid gaze of Plank,ponderously past on Sylvia's heels

"If you'll find Leila, I'm ready at any time," she said carelessly, and resumed her tête-à-tête with Voucher, who had plainly been annoyed at the interruption

Plank went on, a new trouble dawning on his thickening otten Leila Even with all the deiven to those whose use of hiotten Leila and the recent scene between them, and the new attitude and new relations with her that he must so carefully consider and ponder over before he presented hiain!

Ferrall and his wife and Sylvia weretheir adieux to Marion and her mother when he came up; and he, too, took that opportunity

Later, on his quest for Leila, Sylvia, passing through the great hall, shrouded in silk and er in a low voice: "I am at home to you; do you understand? Always," she added nervously

He looked after her with an unconscious sigh, unaware that anything in hi on his broad heels to continue his search for Mrs Mortimer