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dose Of it when he got down to. Bray.
After that, so he had planned, he

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After that, SO he had planned. he;
would begin to break away from it
again: his next treat should be three
days afterward; his next four DAYS.
But during the last week in Scot
land, he had taken it every day
and sometimes twice. That would
never do:. he would at once set
about the task Of breaking himself of
it. That must be done by degrees.
however; the intervals between his
treats should become longer and longer
till he craved for it no more. Craved9
How he crayed now! It was that which
made him so nervous and irritable.
Meantime, it was important that Lily
should not think that anything was
wrong. So before the pause after his
last rather snappish reply to her had
become long, he spoke again in diff
ferent tone
You must forgive me for speaking
rudely,0 he said, "and / am sure that
Marcel is really careful But i had
rather trying time up in Scotland, and
little jumpy. But it is nothing. He
said the best thing / could do was to
come down here and amuse myself, and
forget all about the typhoid.
Won't you see a doctor?' she
But it, so nice to be told there is
nothing wrong, she said.
He laughed
"Oh, am sure Of that without see
ing one, !" he said.
The house at Bray was long andNlow
and rambling, standing in the middle Of
hoWer-beds and lawns and stiff box
hedges cut into shape, which screened
it from the river, SO that. the Sunday
0fforn0On orOuyH 0o,,11 t,oc
of riverside houses, observe exactly
who was there and what they had for
tea. Indeed, had it not been for this
1mpenetrable hedge, what they had for
breakfast, lunch, and dinner would
have been equally clear, for Lady Thur
lawn, where, when the day was hot, it
was pleasanter to have all meals. An
other pavilion on the opposite side Of
the lawn served as drawing room or
card room, and often nobody really set
foot in the house at all from breakfast
tn bedtime. A dozen guests were all
that the house itself would hold, but if,
as often, happened, people proposed
themselves at the last moment, it was
possible to get accommodation for them :
at neighbOring hotel, where they re-
tired for the night. Today, however,
there was going to be no sleeping out.
It was doubtful, indeed, whether the
szsf wSaa g. suite 7n Ma aud
Alice Yardly and her husband were Ger
talntles, as also were Jim Stratton and
Ruby Maiendie, and couple Of Ameri-
can cousins had proposed themselves,
but that only brought their number up
to ten. Lily hardly kneWs whether
once, it is true, she would have a quiet
Sunday, but she was little worried,
not only about the emotional history Of
her own which has been touched on, but
also about her husband, and she was
not sure that she would not have pre-
ferred rush and hustle. Yet, after all,
she could keep herself fairly well occu-
pied. The American cousins, too, a
plain elderly millionaire, dyspeptic and
rather mournful, with his wife who was
young, voluble, and carried about with
her, as It were, pals Of gross and full
some fiattery, with which she white
tie management. Lily, however, never
neglected even the most distant cous-
ms when they came to England, for she
had inherited from her mother that
Idea Of al Anglican dasr4 hospitality which
comparison, and did not consider her
duty as done when she had asked even
the most undesirable cousins to dinner,
She acknowledged il to nobody else.
Silas P: Morgan, in fact, and Theodosia,
whom he always addressed slowly as
Theodosia, giving each syllable it's full
value, had arrived before they got
there, and met them Hospitality at the
front door,
why, i this doesn't e; tickle me to
death, exclaimed Theodosia, < to re-
ceive you at your own house, Lily; and
how are you, Lord Thurso, and nv.
what beautiful motorl Silas and I
got here just half an hour ago, and
your servants brought us tea right
away out on the lawn and made us ever
50 much at home But as I'm forever
saying to everybody, Lily Thurso is
just perfect her husband, her houses.
her dress, her motorcar.' Don't I
There was never any silence when
Theodosia was present. She was usually
talking when somebody else was talk
ing, and she was always talking when
nobody else was.
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