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I wonder if other families have got tame countesses, who come bothering and interfering in their affairs? I don't mind our having a house-warming party at all, but I do hate that it should be to please Lady Scilly.
"A party! A party! " she said to George, clasping her hands in her silly way. "My party on the table! " like the woman in the play of _Ibsen_. "Ask all the dear, amusing literary people that I adore. And I'll bring a large contingent of smart people, if I may, to meet them. Please, _please_!"