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The Upas Tree

PART I CHAPTER I
10/15

As I walk across the well-kept lawns, I find it almost difficult to behave with decorum.

It takes me quite a long time to become really common-place and conventional once more." Helen smiled.

"Darling," she said, "I think you must have visited the tropical plants in Kew Gardens more frequently than I realised! I shall have to forbid Kew, when certain important County functions are pending." "Oh, bother the County!" cried Ronnie.

"I never went in for a French dancing-master to bid me mind my P's and Q's! But, seriously, Helen, don't you understand how much this means to me?
Both my last novels have had tame English settings.

I can't go on forever letting my people make love in well-kept gardens!" "Dear Ronnie, you have a good precedent.


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