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"I insist on knowing what is the matter, Beppo? " The Countess Polda gazed apprehensively at her son. Not even when he had been going through acute money trouble had he looked as moody and miserable as he looked now.
He had just arrived at La Solitude to hear that Lily had gone off to the Convalescent Home for the morning.