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As Lady Kesters motored home in her smart new Rolls-Royce, her expression was unusually grave; for once Uncle Dick had proved invulnerable, and she was overpowered with surprise; for her ladyship was so accustomed "to push the world before her," to borrow an Irish expression, that any little resistance affected her in the nature of a shock.
Her brother was awaiting her in the smoking-room, and as she entered and threw off her furs, he said --