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FIFTH SCENE.
The Square.
Between four and five in the afternoon--when the women of the Western
regions are in their carriages, and the men are at their clubs--London
presents few places more conveniently adapted for purposes of private
talk than the solitary garden inclosure of a square.
On the day when Richard Turlington paid his visit to Muswell Hill, two
ladies (with a secret between them) unlocked the gate of the railed
garden in Berkeley Square. They shut the gate after entering the
inclosure, but carefully forbore to lock it as well, and carefully
restricted their walk to the westward side of the garden. One of them
was Natalie Graybrooke. The other was Mrs. Sancroft's eldest daughter.
A certain temporary interest attached, in the estimation of society,
to this young lady. She had sold well in the marriage market. In other
words, she had recently been raised to the position of Lord Winwood's
second wife; his lordship conferring on the bride not only the honors of
the peerage, but the additional distinction of being stepmother to his
three single daughters, all older than herself.
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