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Major Guthrie looked at Mrs. Otway meditatively.
Apart from his instinctive attraction for her -- an attraction which had sprung into being the very first time they had met, at a dinner party at the Deanery -- he had always regarded her as an exceptionally clever woman. She was able to do so much more than most of the ladies he had known. To his simple soldier mind there was something interesting and, well, yes, rather extraordinary, in a woman who sat on committees, who could hold her own so well in argument, and who yet remained very feminine, sometimes -- so he secretly thought -- quite delightfully absurd and inconsequent, with it all.