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A week had passed since Dulcie had promised to become my wife, and since the amazing robbery in broad daylight at Holt Manor.
I had been five days back in town, where I had some estate business to attend to. It was the evening of Hugesson Gastrell's house -- warming reception in his newly furnished mansion in Cumberland Place, and the muster of well-known people was extraordinary.