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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER FOUR Everybody's Business Qui monet amat. Proverb. Can you spare a moment to see me some time? You may remember Mrs. O'Rane's party and a young man whom we agreed not to like. I want to find out all I can about him. . . . Amy Loring lay in bed, frowning over Eric's note and weaving interpretations of its discreet brevity. After telephoning to invite him to tea, she read the letter again with mingled curiosity and misgiving. Obviously the man in question was John Gaymer; no less obviously John Gaymer had been up to mischief. It was not easy, however, to establish a connection between him and Eric, unless he had been up to mischief with the little Maitland girl; Amy had overheard enough of a conversation between them at the Carstairs' dinner to realize that a certain intimacy existed; and she had not failed to detect in Eric at least a paternal attitude towards a girl whose eyes just perceptibly brightened when he spoke to her. In the course of the morning she contrived a meeting with Gaymer's aunt Lady Poynter; encountering Lady Maitland at luncheon, she mentioned Ivy's name and returned home in time for tea with a collection of opinions which crystallized in the vigorous statement that Mr. Justice Maitland was a fool, Gaymer a cad and Ivy a child whom one had not seen since she was a baby. What is it, exactly, that you want to find out?, asked Amy when Eric arrived. I hardly know. . . I've met this girl half a dozen times; she's a nice child, but rather impulsive and very easily led. She's not happy at home, and I fancy she's allowing Gaymer to lead her. . . Let me put it this way: if she were your sister, would you entrust her to him with an easy mind? Amy shook her head emphatically: No I daresay I'm old-fashioned. . . Mr. Lane, I'm wa...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217610773 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217610773 |
| Weight | 0.59 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 176 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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