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Rh high distinction. It is a privilege to meet him. And that member of Parliament, Mr. Kettle

SIR JOHN Kelvil, my love, Kelvil.

LADY CAROLINE He must be quite respectable. One has never heard his name before in the whole course of one's life, which speaks volumes for a man, nowadays. But Mrs. Allonby is hardly a very suitable person.

HESTER I dislike Mrs. Allonby. I dislike her more than I can say.

LADY CAROLINE I am not sure, Miss Worsley, that foreigners like yourself should cultivate likes or dislikes about the people they are invited to meet. Mrs. Allonby is very well born. She is a niece of Lord Brancaster's. It is said, of course, that she ran away twice before she was married. But you know how unfair people often are. I 3