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Though to Adela the eccentric supper was intensely wearisome, her uninvited guests enjoyed themselves. She marvelled how they could find anything interesting, or amusing, or pleasant in such a puerile frivolity. She forgot that she had herself participated in a hundred things equally extravagant, that she had invented or prompted a score of silly fads for senseless people. She laughed and smiled at her guests, and joined in their conversation, but she was the skeleton at the feast.
She glanced furtively at the clock from time to time, and was surprised it was yet barely ten. She might consider herself fortunate if they left before one or two o'clock.