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Vass paused before answering this question and drank some more water. Now that he had commenced his confession he was much more at his ease, and seemed disposed to tell all he had hitherto kept back. He smiled faintly and repeated Darrel's remark before making any reply.
"How about going in place of Lydia? " he said. "Well that was because Miss Hargone never intended to go to Italy or South America with Grent."