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SEASON followed season, and life for the residents of Church Consett Hall was, I reckon, neither better nor worse than for a hundred other homes that nestle upon the country side of the fair English Midlands. Violet was away at Long Chace for a week at a time, and did pretty well as she pleased.
It did not trouble me much, for I had allowed myself to become engrossed with the estate. A polite and not unpleasant courtesy took the place of any warmer feeling, as it does, perhaps, in the majority of homes; it is to be feared that the bulk of married people are mismarried; but, having discovered their mistake too late, decide to make the best of it--admit in silence, their mutual failure, and go each their way.