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Rh that of his man, and flushed with annoyance which he told himself was only that of the trustee—that she should have come alone.

He halted at the door of his reception room, relieved by his first glimpse of her which seemed to tell him that she had stopped only for a moment on her way to some evening entertainment. But he was perplexed and dazed by his second and longer look, for which he was now suddenly certain she had been fully prepared. He felt the conviction, for which he could in no way account, that she was expected nowhere and had dressed in this way for him. Since the only other time he had seen her she had been in a simple dress of gray, she wished now, for some purpose of her own, that he should see her in evening dress. Jewels blazed at her throat and hair; her beauty by the change