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Robert Black was dressing for a dinner -- a men's dinner, to which Samuel Lockhart had invited him, and Tom Lockhart had commanded him.
"You see, I've got to be there," Tom had explained. "And Dad always asks a lot of ponderous old personages who bore you to death -- or else make you red with rage at some of their fossil ideas. The only thing that saves the case for me to-night is that you're coming. I've stipulated that I sit near you -- see? Mother wouldn't hear of my being next you -- that honour is reserved for one of your trustees."