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"Why didn't you tell me? " said Phineas that night after Lady Baldock was gone to bed. The two men had taken off their dress coats, and had put on smoking caps -- Lord Chiltern, indeed, having clothed himself in a wonderful Chinese dressing-gown, and they were sitting round the fire in the smoking-room; but though they were thus employed and thus dressed the two younger ladies were still with them.
"How could I tell you everything in two minutes? " said Lady Chiltern.