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Unhappily for the success of Francine's romantic little scheme by which she hoped to interest Lord Cawthorne in her pretty friend Letitia Blake, that young woman received an imperative summons from her editor just as she had finished her lunch, on the appointed Wednesday. It was too late to wire Francine, so Letitia besought Judith Ramsay to take her place.
Judith, however, required some pressing before she would undertake the commission. "Francine said that her maid is a fool," she objected, "and the odds are that she will not come near me. Francine is sure to have described you as tall and dark, whereas I am short and fair."