The Age of Innocence

and her half-awakened eyes stared at him hospitably but confusedly.

\"Gracious—where did you drop from? I must have been sound asleep in the hammock. Everybody else has gone to Newport. Did you ring?\" she incoherently enquired.

Archer's confusion was greater than hers. \"I—no—that is, I was just going to. I had to come up the island to see about a horse, and I drove over on a chance of finding Mrs. Blenker and your visitors.


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and her half-awakened eyes stared at him hospitably but confusedly.

\"Gracious—where did you drop from? I must have been sound asleep in the hammock. Everybody else has gone to Newport. Did you ring?\" she incoherently enquired.

Archer's confusion was greater than hers. \"I—no—that is, I was just going to. I had to come up the island to see about a horse, and I drove over on a chance of finding Mrs. Blenker and your visitors.


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