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When Ida saw the Colonel coming, she put on her sweetest smile and took his outstretched hand.
"How do you do, Colonel Quaritch? " she said. "It is very good of you to come, especially as you don't play tennis much-by the way, I hope you have been studying that cypher, for I am sure it is a cypher."