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but I don't really know how matters stand at the present time.

You have had a letter from Miss de Barral.

What does that letter say ?" "She asks for her valise to be sent to her town address," Mrs.Fyne uttered reluctantly and stopped.

I waited a bit--then exploded.
"Well! What's the matter?
Where's the difficulty?
Does your husband object to that?
You don't mean to say that he wants you to appropriate the girl's clothes ?" "Mr.Marlow!" "Well, but you talk of a painful difference of opinion with your husband, and then, when I ask for information on the point, you bring out a valise.