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which reminds me--I suppose you will have to invite your new kinsman to dine with you." "There is loads of time for that, Honey-bud," said her sister-in-law, glancing up absently from the note she was writing.
"I was merely wondering whether it was necessary at all," observed Ailsa Paige, without interest.
But Celia had begun to write again.

"I'll ask him," she said in her softly preoccupied voice, "Saturday, I think." "Oh, but I'm invited to the Cortlandt's," began Ailsa, and caught her under lip in her teeth.

Then she turned and walked noiselessly into her bedroom, and sat down on the bed and looked at the wall..