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AS Lady Holme had foreseen, the impertinent mimicry of Miss Schley / concentrated a great deal of attention upon the woman mimicked. Many / people, accepting the American's cleverness as a fashionable fact, also / accepted her imitation as the imitation of a fact more surreptitious, / and credited Lady Holme with a secret leading towards the improper never / before suspected by them. They remembered the break between the Holmes / and Carey, the strange scene at the Arkell House ball, and began to / whisper many things of Lady Holme, and to turn a tide of pity and of / sympathy upon her husband. On this tide Lord Holme and the American / might be said to float merrily like corks, unabashed in the eye of the / sun. Their intimacy was condoned on all sides as a natural result of / Lady Holme's conduct. Most of that which had been accomplished by / Lord and Lady Holme together after their reconciliation over the first / breakfast was undone. The silent tongue began to wag, and to murmur the / usual platitudes about the poor fellow who could not find sympathy at / home and so was obliged, against his will, to seek for it outside.
All this Lady Holme had foreseen as she sat in her box at the British / Theatre.