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Marmaduke persevered for several days in his system of polite indifference towards Mrs. Meredith Vyner, while his attentions to Violet became more and more explicit. Her suspicions were gradually giving way.
One evening they sat in the drawing-room discussing _Norma_, which they had seen the night before; and passing from the singers to the story, Violet remarked what a grand tragic idea it contained.