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has enough: eyes and a nose and a mouth, a complexion, a figure———'

'A figure?' Mrs Jordan almost broke in.

'A figure, a head of hair!' The girl made a little conscious motion that seemed to let the hair all down, and her companion watched the wonderful show. 'But Mr. Drake is another———?'

'Another?'—Mrs. Jordan's thoughts had to come back from a distance.

'Of her ladyship's admirers. He's "going," you say, to her?'

At this Mrs. Jordan really faltered. 'She has engaged him.'

'Engaged him?'—our young woman was quite at sea.

'In the same capacity as Lord Rye.'

'And was Lord Rye engaged?'

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Mrs. Jordan looked away from her now—looked, she thought, rather injured and, as if trifled with,