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Gilda Tempest sat in her room in her uncle's well-appointed flat in Bloomsbury. Her face showed traces of great mental strain. There were no lines in her face, but a drawn expression, which her enemies would have called haggard. She held a copy of the _Morning Post_, and was reading it leisurely until her attention was attracted by a paragraph as follows:
"The engagement has been announced of Sir Raife Remington, Bart., of / Aldborough Park, Tunbridge Wells, to Miss Hilda Muirhead, daughter of / Reginald Pomeroy Muirhead, Esq., President of the Fifth National Bank / of Illinois, U. S. A. We understand that the marriage will take place / shortly at St George's, Hanover Square. "