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Lady Theobald's invited guests sat in the faded blue drawing-room, waiting. Everybody had been unusually prompt, perhaps because everybody wished to be on the ground in time to see Miss Octavia Bassett make her entrance.
"I should think it would be rather a trial, even to such a girl as she is said to be," remarked one matron.