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The inference of everything she says, does and unconsciously infers, is

that she is a cultivated lady, accustoland and its great houses well enough to have

e of where certain pieces of fa of her sentences is the phrasing of

our Shibboleth, and not the phrasing of the professional classes

And yet--she is meanly dressed--does housework--and for years must have

been trained in professional business

I have never even questioned Maurice as to how he heard of her

Well, I write all this down cal, to let

ht have led us,

but for the sickening end to the day

Burton did not question her lunching with iven the

order as a matter of course--He is very fine in his distinctions, and

understood that to e after she once had eaten with me

would be invidious

By the time the waiters came in to lay the table, that sense of hurt,

and then of nuain in the

work, and intensely intrigued about the possible history of the Sharp

fa casual indifference, so