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From that moment her assurance faltered , and with the loss of her ease , she lost something , too , of her respectful manner . A note of impertinence became audible . `` Very happy , I 'm sure , '' she said . `` The motor-car delivered the message at midnight , '' Lady Splay resumed , `` and -- this is what I ask your attention to , Jenny -- the editor , in order to obtain corroboration of the message before he inserted it in his paper , rang up Rackham Park . '' Lady Splay paused for Jenny 's comment , but none was uttered then . Jenny was listening with a concentration of all her thoughts . Here was a new fact of which she was ignorant , creeping into the affair .