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The forms were observed most punctiliously; but before the forms began came Lacey, hot from his talk with Fillingford, amazed, almost bewildered, protesting against Jenny's excessive munificence, passionately anxious that she should be sure that he had not foreseen it.
"And how can you believe I never thought of it, when it's just what I ought to have thought of -- just the sort of thing you would be sure to want to do?"