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had been a chair at hand he would have sat down. "Why should she wish you not to meet your father?"
"Well," said Clifford, "father doesn't like to see me there."
Acton looked askance at his companion, and forbore to make any comment upon this assertion. "Has he said so," he asked, "to the Baroness?"
"Well, I hope not," said Clifford. "He hasn't said so in so many words to me. But I know it worries him; and I want to stop worrying him. The Baroness knows it, and she wants me to stop, too."
"To stop coming to see her?"
"I don't know about that; but to stop worrying father. Eugenia knows
