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THE 'EIGHTY-SEVEN.
By BARRY PAIN.
IN the dining-room at 17, Wilberforce Square, S.W., the Sunday had received its midday consecration. Luncheon had been made dinner, for the same reason that later in the day dinner would be made supper. "We must think of the servants," said Mrs. Trope. She thought of many other things—of the winter sales, for instance, or of the present trouble about Patricia and Edward—but she never quite forgot the servants.
The roast sirloin had passed away, the tart and the Cheddar had followed in their solemn Sabbatical order. Mrs. Trope and her two daughters had retired. There remained now the fruits of the earth in their season—walnuts, to be precise—and the decanters, and Mr. Trope. It was one of Mr. Trope's many good habits to take a glass of port after the luncheon-dinner of Sunday. A silvery-haired gentleman of rather presidential appearance, he paused with the nut-crackers in his fleshy hand—paused and reflected.
There had been an unwonted gloom over the dinner-table, and it had not escaped Mr. Trope's parental eye that Patricia, his elder daughter, had been unable to eat. There was to be an interview with Edward at four, and Mr. Trope foresaw that it
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