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Half an hour later Toby was on his way to Stanborough, where he was to meet a friend at the club-house, and play a round of golf with him. As soon as that was over, he proposed to make a call at the Links Hotel and demand an interview with Ted Comber. Lily, in this as in all else above the common level of womankind, made no suggestion that she should come round with them. In fact, she voluntarily repudiated such a possibility.
"No proper man wants a girl hanging about when he is playing a game," she had said. "So if you ask me to come with you -- if, in fact, you don't forbid me to -- you'll be no proper man. Now, shall I come with you? I want to, awfully."