She was disgusted with everything , she declared to the Major . Things had been going so nicely , and now they were all muddled . `` Is n't Madison coming up to time ? '' queried the Major sleepily . `` Madison ! It 's Violet . She is behaving abominably . She treated poor Ned shamefully tonight . You saw yourself how she acted with Spencer , and she 's going to Loon Lake with him tomorrow , she says . I 'm sure I do n't know what she can see in him . He 's the dullest , pokiest fellow alive -- so different from her in every way . '' `` Perhaps that is why she likes him , '' suggested the Major . `` The attraction of opposites and all that , you know . '' But Mrs. Hill crossly told him he did n't know anything about it , so , being a wise man , he held his tongue . * * * * * During the next two weeks Mrs. Hill was the most dissatisfied woman in the four districts , and every M.P. down to the rawest recruit anathemized Spencer in secret a dozen times a day . Violet simply dropped everyone else , including Madison , in the coolest , most unmistakable way . One night Spencer did not come to Lone Poplar Villa . Violet looked for him to the last . When she realized that he was not coming she went to the verandah to have it out with herself . As she sat huddled up in a dim corner beneath a silkily rustling western maple two M.P.s came out and , not seeing her , went on with their conversation .
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