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`` I think she did , '' said Lady Cantrip , `` what I myself should have done in similar circumstances . '' If Lady Cantrip was right , then must his apology to Mrs. Finn be ample and abject . Perhaps it was this feeling which at the moment was most vexatious to him . `` No ; My Lord , I Do Not '' Between two and three o'clock Lord Silverbridge , in spite of his sorrow , found himself able to eat his lunch at his club . The place was deserted , the Beargarden world having gone to the races . As he sat eating cold lamb and drinking soda-and-brandy he did confirm himself in certain modified resolutions , which might be more probably kept than those sterner laws of absolute renunciation to which he had thought of pledging himself in his half-starved morning condition . His father had spoken in very strong language against racing , -- saying that those who went were either fools or rascals .