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The Paying Guest

CHAPTER III
11/23

It's all settled.

I shall live very quietly indeed.' She banged on the piano till nearly eleven o'clock, and went off to bed with a smile of virtuous contentment.
The guests who arrived on Sunday morning were Mr.and Mrs.Grove, Mr.Bilton, and Mr.Dunnill.

Mrs.Grove was Emmeline's elder sister, a merry, talkative, kindly woman.

Aware of the circumstances, she at once made friends with Miss Derrick, and greatly pleased that young lady by a skilful blending of "superior" talk with easy homeliness.
Mr.Bilton, a stockbroker's clerk, represented the better kind of City young man--athletic, yet intelligent, spirited without vulgarity a breezy, good-humoured, wholesome fellow.

He came down on his bicycle, and would return in the same way.


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