Chapter V: From Miss Isolt Sleight-Spender to Miss Marjorie Browne

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... Oh, my dear, don't reproach me for not having run round. We are simply off our heads. Bogloffsky--_the_ Bogloffsky--is coming to dinner on Friday next, and the Mudder and I have been simply _tearing_. Even the Sticklers have accepted, and we hope to get Sir Henry Say, as the Dudder met him once at a City dinner. Of course _I_ shall have to play something first. Pity me!....