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Four men had been invited to dinner at 410, Park Lane, but only three had so far arrived. Worse than that, Vera, whom Hermann had particularly asked to grace the board with her presence, had pleaded the usual headache and had most emphatically refused to come down.
"You are trying to make me look a fool before these people," he stormed. He interviewed her in her little den, and she was palpably unprepared for social functions of any description, being in her dressing-gown.