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`` Flattering for my aunt , '' said Mabel . `` I should have thought she was your oldest friend . '' `` Of course she has the prior claim . But as I was going to hand myself over to her bodily at seven o'clock , to be speechified about and rendered generally ridiculous , after the manner of young men who come of age , I felt I was entitled to do what I liked in the interval . '' `` And therefore you went to the Tempests ' , '' said Mabel , with her blue eyes sparkling . `` I see . That is what you do when you do what you like . ''