"
"May I ask," said Mrs. Packletide, amid the general silence, "why
you put your money on this particular horse. None of the sporting
prophets mentioned it as having an outside chance."
"Well," said Lady Susan, "you may laugh at me, but it was the name
that attracted me. You see, I was always mixed up with the
Franco-German war; I was married on the day that the war was
declared, and my eldest child was born the day that peace was
signed, so anything connected with the war has always interested
me. And when I saw there was a horse running in the Derby called
after one of the battles in the Franco-German war, I said I MUST
put some money on it, for once in a way, though I disapprove of
racing. And it's actually won."
There was a general groan. No one groaned more deeply than the
professor of military history.
THE SECRET SIN OF SEPTIMUS BROPE
"Who and what is Mr. Brope?" demanded the aunt of Clovis suddenly.
Mrs. Riversedge, who had been snipping off the heads of defunct
roses, and thinking of nothing in particular, sprang hurriedly to
mental attention. She was one of those old-fashioned hostesses
who consider that one ought to know something about one's guests,
and that the something ought to be to their credit.
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