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The person of whom Lily seemed to see least during the period of her engagement was the man whom she was to marry.
Jests about placing them beside one another at the many hospitable tables to which they were invited seemed to be inevitable, but each was obviously expected to talk and make acquaintance with the friends or relations of the other.