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When Martin and Wanda returned to the grandstand they found the next box to theirs, which had hitherto been empty, occupied by a sedate party of foreigners. Miss Mangles had come to the races, not because she cared for sport, but because she had very wisely argued in her mind that one cannot set about to elevate human nature without a knowledge of those depths to which it sometimes descends.
"And this," she said, when she had settled herself on the chair commanding the best view, "this is the turf."