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Rh ingham, although as like Miss Maywood as two peas, yet had something much more soft and winning about her. She was, it is true, strictly conventional, and had the typical English woman's respect for rank and money and matrimony, but marriage had plainly done much for her. She might grieve that "Reggie" could not go to Court, but she did full justice to Reggie as a man and a doctor.

Miss Maywood sat next Mr. Romaine, and agreed scrupulously with everything he said. This peculiarity of hers seemed to inspire the old gentleman with the determination to make a spectacle of her, and he advanced some of the most grotesque and alarming fallacies imaginable, to which Miss Maywood gave a facile assent.

"It is my belief," he said, quite gravely, at last, in consequence of an allusion to the Franco-Prussian war, "that had the Communists succeeded in keeping possession of Paris a month longer, we should have seen the German army trooping out of France, and glad to get away at any price. Had the Communists' intelligent use of petroleum been made available against the Prussians, who knows what the result might have been? I