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'At this moment we are only going as far as Halstadt.'
'And are coming back to dinner? Of course they will dine with us.
Will they not, papa?' The Duke said that he hoped they would. To
declare that you are engaged at an hotel, unless there be some
real engagement is almost an impossibility. There was no escape,
and before they were allowed to get into their carriage they had
promised that they would dine with the Duke and his daughter.
'I don't know that it is especially a bore,' Mrs Finn said to her
husband in the carriage. 'You may be quite sure that of whatever
trouble there may be in it, he has much more than his share.'
'His share would be the whole,' said the husband. 'No one else has
done anything wrong.'
When the Duke's apology had reached her, so that there was no
longer any ground for absolute hostility, then she had told the
whole story to her husband. He at first was very indignant. What
right had the Duke to expect that any ordinary friend should act
duenna over his daughter in accordance with his caprices? This was
said and much more of this kind.
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