"I wish," he repeated, "you would go and see these people. She's not at all what you might infer from him."
"What could one infer about a wife from a man like that? Except that she'd have a lot to put up with."
"You know,—she's a beautiful person, tall, slender, dark...."
Lady Beach-Mandarin turned her full blue eye upon him.
"Now!" she said archly.
"I'm interested in the incongruity1."
Lady Beach-Mandarin's reply was silent and singular. She compressed her lips very tightly,
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