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understood that side of Amanda's interests, a side upon which Benham
was notably deficient. . . .
"Amanda seems to like that dark boy, Poff; what is his name?--Sir
Philip Easton?" said Lady Marayne.
Benham looked at her with a slightly hostile intelligence, and said
nothing.
"When a man takes a wife, he has to keep her," said Lady Marayne.
"No," said Benham after consideration. "I don't intend to be a
wife-herd."
"What?"
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