A Fair Fraud — page 164: what you’re looking at

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: CHAPTER XI Ir Marion, sitting alone upstairs in her own little sitting-room, could a few minutes later have been a spectator of the interview that she had been instrumental in bringing about in the morning-room between the two people in whose fortunes she was so deeply interested, she would certainly have been very much surprised by what was taking place there. Assuredly it was not a lovers’ meeting. Pale, and almost defiant, the woman had stated her case, and had made her request. Equally pale and bitterly contemptuous, the man had listened to her and had acceded to her demands with a celerity that went far to prove how fatally she had fallen in his estimation. | ‘I cannot imagine what you must think of me!’ Hester was saying now helplessly, not for the first time. ‘That really does not signify in the least, does it?’ Kenneth answered politely and coldly. ‘Of course I am only too glad to be of assistance to you in your difficulty, A man 153 COMNMUC JOO <S (GO) uu