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in for cocktails and a fox-trot or two in the drawing-room before lunch, and it ended at any time after three in the morning. They danced to the gramophone from half-past twelve till two; after lunch they had an orchestra till six; then they had the gramophone again till nine, when another orchestra came in for the night. They used Dunkle's study for roulette and baccarat.
By the end of the season Dunkle was fourteen thousand pounds in debt.
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Anyone would have said at this time that Chloë and her husband were exuberantly happy. They weren't. Their ointment, believe me, lacked not its fly. Riotous behaviour (says the copy-book) frequently conceals a sorrowful preoccupation. This was a case of it. Chloë and Dunkle, for
