" "Doubtless.

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" I began to ponder.
"I was very certain of my conclusions at the time," Marlow went on impatiently.

"But don't think for a moment that Mrs.Fyne in her new attitude and toying thoughtfully with a teaspoon was about to surrender.
She murmured: "It's the last thing I should have thought could happen." "You didn't suppose they were romantic enough," I suggested dryly.
She let it pass and with great decision but as if speaking to herself, "Roderick really must be warned." She didn't give me the time to ask of what precisely.