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Esmeralda at lunch recounted her adventure to Lady Wyndover, telling it in the most casual way, and she was much surprised and puzzled when her ladyship almost dropped her knife and fork, and sunk back in her chair with an exclamation of annoyance.
"My dear girl, what made you do such an--an extraordinary and absurd thing? That comes of letting you go out alone! Oh, dear! oh, dear!"