"It was really.

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quite a big row." She paused, then continued, indignantly: "As if I'd have tried to deceive him over it--writing that I was going to you when I wasn't! Roger's a fool! He ought to have known me better.

I've never yet been coward enough to lie about anything I wanted to do." "But, my dear"-- Penelope was openly distressed--"we must send him a wire at once.