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Bernadette Lisle's foray on the shops of Paris, undertaken in preparation for the London season, was of so extensive an order as to leave her hardly an hour of the day to herself; and in the evenings the friends with whom she was staying -- Mrs. and Miss Stacey Jenkinson, Europeanised Americans and most popular people -- insisted on her society. So it was with the greatest difficulty that she had at last got away by herself and was able to come to lunch.
"Though even now," she told Oliver Wyse, as they sat down together at the Cafe de Paris, "it's a secret assignation. I'm supposed to be trying on hats!"