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MARY Longmore's party was a comfortable, well-fed affair, kept keyed to gaiety largely by force of the hostess's exuberant geniality. Mary never let things down. A lull found her ready with one of her yarns; a story of the kind nobody could tell but Mary, so true to character, so whimsical, so suffused with our little human foibles and vanities, that not even the most stupid could think them dull.
"Why don't you write, them?" demanded Inglis. "It makes an editorial heart bleed to see such ripping stuff practically running to waste."