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From the dinner , to which she and her husband had been asked on the evening previous to Traill 's visit to Apsley , she wrote and excused herself , saying she had been called out of Town ; and on the next morning she had ordered the car to be round at the house in Sloane Street punctually at a quarter to ten . `` Ca n't see why you have to give up the dinner and drive me out of it as well because you have to go down to Apsley to-morrow , '' her husband had said when she had written to her hostess excusing their presence at dinner . `` The reason 's obvious , '' she replied equably . `` I have n't had a good night 's rest for a week -- I ca n't sleep after eight o'clock in the morning like you do , and I 've got a woman to deal with to-morrow . You do n't want to lose the shooting and the hunting down at Apsley , do you ? '' `` No -- rather not -- of course I do n't . '' `` Then let me get a good night 's rest . ''