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LILY.

GABRIELLE.

LILY.

What?

GABRIELLE.

How much did you make out of rubber last year through Lal?

LILY.

Rubber, rubber, rubber? Br-r-r-rh! I don't know. [To ROPER.] How much?

ROPER.

Four-fifty.

GABRIELLE.

There!

LILY.

I did my house up with it-- gave the job to young Charlie Ramsden who's gone in for decorating----

ROPER.

Yes, and blued the whole lot at one go!

LILY.

ROPER.

COOLING.

MRS. STIDULPH.

VON RETTENMAYER.

Noding is what it was, my dear Dolly, and nobody.

MRS. STIDULPH.

VON RETTENMAYER.

MRS. STIDULPH.

VON RETTENMAYER.

MRS. STIDULPH.

Favourable! They make me blush to read them. Stupid of me; but they make me blush, positively.

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