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They had had tea in the farm sitting room and Dallas had made a little moaning over the beauty of the Dutch lustre set. Selina had entertained them with the shining air of one who is robed in silk and fine linen. She and General Goguet had got on famously from the start, meeting on the common ground of asparagus culture.
"But how thick? " he had demanded, for he, too, had his pet asparagus beds on the farm in Brittany. "How thick at the base?"