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The author is sorry to say that poor Lina 

 Lancelot not only had not her programme full, 

 but that, just on the chance of Reginald asking 

 her, she had kept many blank spaces on her 

 card. The author also feels quite sure that the 

 ladies who may honour him by reading this 

 book are at this moment perfectly furious with 

 Reginald Miller for being so blind ; but you 

 see, my dear ladies, he is a man, only a poor 

 stupid man, and consequently in affairs of this 

 sort just as blind as the proverbial bat. He 

 was very miserable though — not that he does 

 not deserve to be so from the ladies' point of 

 view — but then you see he really thought she 

 did not care a bit for him, and bearing in mind 

 what Alfred Acton had told him on the night 

 they landed, and after he had just received his 

 own conge, he felt quite sure that the citadel 

 had been successfully stormed by another. 

 Somehow or other it never entered his head to 

 think that it was within the bounds of possi- 

 bility that he could by any chance be that 

 other for whom she had confessed to Alfred 



