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He left it at that for the time, but throughout the afternoon Mr. Direck had the gratification of seeing his thought floating round and round in the backwaters of Mr. Britling's mental current. If it didn't itself get into the stream again its reflection at any rate appeared and reappeared. He was taken about with great assiduity throughout the afternoon, and he got no more than occasional glimpses of the rest of the Dower House circle until six o'clock in the evening.
Meanwhile the fountains of Mr. Britling's active and encyclopaedic mind played steadily.