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When the curtain rises, is sitting on the Chesterfield, reading a bound volume of “Punch” and nursing a Pekinese dog. comes in L.



I say, whose is this fellow? Yours?



Is she fond of dogs?

She bought him about a year ago, when you first went out to France.



Never noticed him again; left him to the servants.

What’s his name?



(fondling the dog) : Affectionate little beggar, too.



She found him in the corridor, begging to be taken notice of. I hadn’t seen him before.



Back numbers 1914. Trying to catch up with history. I spent all the morning