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"To your sister?"
"You know they are decidedly intimate," said Acton.
"Ah," cried Eugenia smiling, "has she—has she—"
"I don't know," Acton interrupted, "what she has. But I always supposed that Clifford had a desire to make himself agreeable to her."
"Ah, par exemple!" the Baroness went on. "The little monster! The next time he becomes sentimental I will tell him that he ought to be ashamed of himself."
Acton was silent a moment. "You had better say nothing about it."
"I had told him as much already, on general grounds," said the Baroness. "But
