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That they should return to Grand Republic on an early January day when the sun came out after a snowstorm, that Mrs. Higbee should be at the door to greet the young chatelaine, that flowers should have come from Diantha Marl and Bradd Criley, and a shaker of already- mixed cocktails from Queenie Havock, that Jinny should coo, "Bergheim is an awfully stately old place, isn't it!" was all so exactly the Judge's idea of what was fitting that it bothered him. There was no responsible worrying to be done!
Cleo, now a proud young cat, came galloping hysterically downstairs when she heard their voices. Then she pretended that she didn't even know them, but had just happened to be passing that way. In fact she stayed about for an hour, to make sure that they saw how she ignored them.