A Fair Fraud — page 190: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XIII Marion sat very demurely behind the teacups at the early breakfast the following morning. She had not put on her best frock, but it ts doubtful whether Mr Naylor remarked the fact ot whether she would have looked more charm- ing in it than she did in her simple dark serge dress, relieved by a scarlet tie knotted round her neck, which became her to perfection. Naylor looked at her once or twice a little curiously, but he did not speak to her beyond wishing her a brief good morning, to which she responded without lifting her eyes to his. He wondered what she could be thinking about, and believed that he guessed—but not in the wildest flight of fancy did he imagine that her womanly sensibilities had been rudely outraged by the shock of her aunt’s indiscreet revela- tions. He had been a good deal annoyed him- self by the words that had passed between Mr Drury and himself after dinner last night, but being a man of great determination and strength of character they had made no difference to him. 179 GOMMGIOO <S (GO) uu