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The next day was Sunday. Horatia told Maud her news after dinner as they sat on Maud's comfortable veranda. She was neither surprised nor disappointed at Maud's reception of the news. There was just about as big a storm as she had expected. Maud, having laid the worrying ghost of Langley, was enraged at its reappearance.
"And Anthony Wentworth was so taken with you the other night," she wailed. "Don't you ever want to get anywhere? You little fool -- -- "