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"You didn't, really! " exclaimed Lady Hamilton, as Patty gleefully described giving the flowers to Sir Otho Markleham.
"But I did, Kitty, and truly, he _was_ mad enough to pitch me into that yellow muddy old river. I greatly admire his self-control in not really doing it. But what eyes he has! So gray and steely, they cut right through me! And he just said, tragically, 'I have no daughter,' and stalked away. But -- and this is the main thing -- he kept the flowers!"