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Lady Connie

CHAPTER II
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She has plenty of money, and we haven't.

We have given her a great deal more than we give our own daughters--" "She pays us, my dear!" Mrs.Hooper straightened her thin shoulders.
"Well, and you give her the advantage of your name and your reputation here.

It is not as though you were a young don, a nobody.

You've made your position.

Everybody asks us to all the official things--and Connie, of course, will be asked, too." A smile crept round Dr.Hooper's weak and pleasant mouth.
"Don't flatter yourself, Ellen, that Connie will find Oxford society very amusing after Rome and the Riviera." "That will be her misfortune," said Mrs.Hooper, stoutly.


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