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"I can't give you her precise words," said Mr Gresham. "And I don't think what she said was exactly premeditated. We were talking about Cannes and the people there-it was, in fact, the first time I had seen the Worthings since meeting them there, and I have not seen them again. Something was said about the Lermonts, and Mrs Worthing expressed her surprise at finding that the-the Raynsworths were cousins of theirs. She ‘had never heard of them before; who were they? it seemed odd somehow. ' I reminded her that Mrs Marmaduke Headfort was a Miss Raynsworth, and that the young lady of the same name was her sister. And to my amazement, what do you think the woman said next?"
Michael murmured something unintelligible. Bernard proceeded: