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Matresser laid down _The Times_ and rose to his feet as Mademoiselle Stamier came a little doubtfully into the small reception-room.
"I am afraid, Mademoiselle," he said, "that you see your doom. The Dean and his wife have engaged in a desperate struggle of bridge with my sister and brother-in-law and Ann's badminton with the doctor seems to be a nightly affair. It is clearly your duty to come and talk to me."