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Perhaps , if you are not too busy , you will see that Morrison packs some things for me . '' He moved to the writing table , and wrote a few lines to the Marchioness , regretting that his absence from town would prevent his dining with her on the following day . Then he studied the money column in several newspapers for half an hour , and telephoned to his broker . At eleven o'clock , he rode for an hour in the quietest part of the park , avoiding , so far as possible , anyone he knew , and galloping whenever he could . It was the only form of exercise in which he was known to indulge although the knowledge of English games , which he sometimes displayed , was a little puzzling to some of his acquaintances . On his return , he made a simple but correct toilet , and at half-past one he met Lady Ruth at Prince 's Restaurant . Lady Ruth 's gown of dove color , with faint touches of blue , was effective , and she knew it .