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`` My niece is not at home , and I can not tell how your suggestion will be received by her , though it is most kind . I may , however , answer for myself that I shall be glad to see you at four o'clock this afternoon . `` Very truly yours , `` MEDORA HASTINGS . '' Grateful for her evident intention to waste no time , St. George dressed and drove to the Boris , punctually sending up his card at four o'clock . At once he was ushered to Mrs. Hastings ' apartment . St. George entered her drawing-room incuriously . Three years of entering drawing-rooms which he never thereafter was to see had robbed him of that sensation of indefinable charm which for many a strange room never ceases to yield .