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On that afternoon, immediately on the husband's return to the house, his wife spoke to him as her father had desired. On that evening Mr. Wharton was dining at his club, and therefore there was the whole evening before them; but the thing to be done was disagreeable, and therefore she did it at once -- rushing into the matter almost before he had seated himself in the armchair which he had appropriated to his use in the drawing-room. "Papa was talking about our affairs after you left this morning, and he thinks that it would be so much better if you would tell him all about them. "
"What made him talk of that today? " he said, turning at her almost angrily and thinking at once of the Duke's cheque.