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In the first of the marked passages, Evelyn Devenish, writing from Biarritz to Suvlac, reluctantly agreed to a marriage between Diana Tasborough and Robin Webster.
Of course she's in love with you. She has already sent Bryce Carter about his business. She can't talk for five minutes without bringing you in.... I sometimes wish that you were disfigured and rather horribly, so that no one in the world except myself would willingly look at you.... Oh, I'd make up for them! But we are as poor as rats, and nothing's any good without money.