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"More likely because I have learnt to know your papa's daughter." "Do you mean Lucy?"
"That is saying the same thing twice over. You know me because you know me."
"Just that. How long do you suppose I have known that Mrs Gregory, who sat opposite to us yesterday?"
"Just fifteen years. I was going to Harrow when she came as a young girl to stay with my mother. Her people and my people had known each other for the last fifty years. Since that I have seen her constantly, and of course we are very intimate."
"I know as much about her after all that as if we had lived in two different hemispheres and couldn't speak a word of each other's language. There isn't a thought or a feeling in common between us. I ask after her husband and her children, and then tell her it's going to rain. She says something about the old General's health, and then there is an end of everything between us. When next we meet we do it all over again."
"How very uninteresting!" said Ayala.
"Very uninteresting. It is because there are so many Mrs Gregorys about that I like to go down to Drumcaller and live by myself. Perhaps you're a Mrs Gregory to somebody."
"Why should I be a Mrs Gregory? I don't think I am at all like Mrs Gregory."
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