"
"Which is Veronique?" asked the Baroness.
"The most depressed-looking of the three," said Clovis.
THE PEACE OFFERING
"I want you to help me in getting up a dramatic entertainment of
some sort," said the Baroness to Clovis. "You see, there's been
an election petition down here, and a member unseated and no end
of bitterness and ill-feeling, and the County is socially divided
against itself. I thought a play of some kind would be an
excellent opportunity for bringing people together again, and
giving them something to think of besides tiresome political
squabbles."
The Baroness was evidently ambitious of reproducing beneath her
own roof the pacifying effects traditionally ascribed to the
celebrated Reel of Tullochgorum.
"We might do something on the lines of Greek tragedy," said
Clovis, after due reflection; "the Return of Agamemnon, for
instance."
The Baroness frowned.
"It sounds rather reminiscent of an election result, doesn't it?"
"It wasn't that sort of return;" explained Clovis it was a home-
coming."
"I thought you said it was a tragedy."
"Well, it was. He was killed in his bathroom, you know."
"Oh, now I know the story, of course.
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