[SPAM] pe his mother's silent anguish of

D at having Mrs. Spragg thus coupled with a Duchess, found herself

seated between mother and daughter, and responding by a radiant blush to the elder lady's amiable opening:

"You know my nephew Raymond--he's

your great admirer." How had it happened, whither would it lead, how long

could it

last? The questions raced through Undine's brain as she sat listening to her new friends--they seemed already too friendly to be called acquaintances!--replying

to their enquiries, and trying to think far enough ahead to guess what they would expect her to say, and what tone it would be well to take. She was used to such feats of mental agility, and it was instinctive with her to become, for

the moment, the person she thought her interlocutors expected her to be; but she had never had quite

so new a part to play at such short notice. She took her cue, however,

from the fact that the Princess Estradina, in her mother's presence,

made no farther allusion to her dear friend Sacha, and seemed somehow, though

she continued to chat on in the same easy strain, to look differently and throw out different implications. All these sh

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