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TO EVERY MAN HIS HOUR.
It was the close of the season: many people had left town, but festivities were still on.

To a stranger the season might have seemed at its height.

The Armours were giving a large party in Cavendish Square before going back again to Greyhope, where, for the sake of Lali and her child, they intended to remain during the rest of the summer, in preference to going on the Continent or to Scotland.

The only unsatisfactory feature of Lali's season was the absence of her husband.
Naturally there were those who said strange things regarding Frank Armour's stay in America; but it was pretty generally known that he was engaged in land speculations, and his club friends, who perhaps took the pleasantest view of the matter, said that he was very wise indeed, if a little cowardly, in staying abroad until his wife was educated and ready to take her position in society.