Through the archway that gave on to the coffee-room the outraged Duchess could see her son, seated on the edge of a table with one foot swinging, and a glass in his hand. Lord Rupert was in the background, holding a bottle, and speaking to somebody outside Léonie’s range of vision. A burst of laughter set the seal to her grace’s wrath. She promptly walked into the coffee-room, saw that not only Mr Comyn, but her husband also, was there, and said reproachfully: ‘But I find you extremely rude, all of you! One would say this wine of Rupert’s, of which I have already heard enough, was of more
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