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He might learn through Mrs. Luna ; that would almost reconcile him to going to see her again . Olive would mention it in writing to her sister , and Adeline would repeat the complaint . Perhaps she herself would even make him a scene about it ; that would be , for him , part of the unhappiness he had foretold to Verena Tarrant . `` Mrs. Henry Burrage , at home Wednesday evening , March 26th , at half-past nine o'clock . '' It was in consequence of having received a card with these words inscribed upon it that Basil Ransom presented himself , on the evening she had designated , at the house of a lady he had never heard of before . The account of the relation of effect to cause is not complete , however , unless I mention that the card bore , furthermore , in the left-hand lower corner , the words : `` An Address from Miss Verena Tarrant . '' He had an idea -LRB- it came mainly from the look and even the odour of the engraved pasteboard -RRB- that Mrs. Burrage was a member of the fashionable world , and it was with considerable surprise that he found himself in such an element .