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"Who is this Mowbray? " Gregory asked Ora abruptly on the following evening. He was in Ora's living-room, his long legs stretched out to the fire.
Ora, who was working on a small piece of embroidery in a frame, superlatively feminine, enveloped in a tea gown imponderable and white, looked up in surprise. They had been sitting together for an hour or more and their conversation had been wholly of his plans to entertain his party of geologists, and the attention this sensational flank attack had attracted throughout the country.