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When people are engaged, they usually contrive to meet with frequency, and so Amy Rivers showed no very great surprise at seeing Fairfax again later in the evening. She only said: "Why, I didn't know you knew the Latchfords. " To which Hamilton Fairfax replied that he did not know them, but had met another man at the club who was coming to the party, and that the other man had brought him.
"An extra male never matters at a big dance," said Fairfax. "Besides," he went on, "I wanted particularly to see you this evening. Since we parted last, I've heard of an estate for sale in Kent which I fancy would just suit us. The present holder wants money, and therefore it's going cheap; but there's another fellow after it, and I've only got the refusal till to-morrow morning. So you see I want your views on the subject at once."