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Mr. and Mrs. Percival Fream arrived at the "Cosmopolis" Hotel in Monte Carlo about half-past three in the afternoon.
Mary was very tired. Moreover, it was raining and the southern sea draped under a grey veil looked strange and unwelcoming. A gilded lift took them up to the second floor, and a polite bureau clerk in black threw open the door of their suite, and waited attentively upon the Englishman's face of ice.