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But one afternoon when she was walking home from Harrod's she chanced to meet Walter Fane in the Brompton Road, He stopped and talked to her. Then, casually, he asked her if she would take a turn with him in the Park. She had no particular wish to go home; it was not just then a very agreeable place. They strolled along, talking as they always talked, of casual things, and he asked her where she was going for the summer.
‘Oh, we always bury ourselves in the country. You see, father is exhausted after the term's work and we just go to the quietest place we can find.'