`` Otherwise you would n't have come , '' thought Violet . `` Flattering -- very ! '' Aloud she said , `` Is it serious ? '' `` Oh , no . A mere squabble among the Indians . Have you ever visited the Reservation , Miss Thayer ? No ? Well , you should get some of your M.P. friends to take you out . It would be worth while . '' `` Why do n't you ask me to go yourself ? '' said Violet audaciously . Spencer smiled again . `` Have I failed in politeness by not doing so ? I fear you would find me an insufferably dull companion . '' So he was not going to ask her after all . Violet felt piqued . She was also conscious of a sensation very near akin to disappointment . She looked across at Madison . How trim and dapper he was ! `` I hate a bandbox man , '' she said to herself .
Spencer meanwhile had picked up one XXXXX Mrs. Hill 's novels from the stand beside him . ''
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