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`` TO LADY ESMONDET , `` Villa Iberia , Rome , Italy . '' The outcome of above letter was to cause Lady Esmondet and Vaura to make immediate preparations to reach Haughton Hall . `` We should be there ; the hand Madame holds is too full of tricks , '' said Lady Esmondet , energetically , as she finished reading the letter aloud . `` We can go to-night by the midnight express , '' said Vaura , impulsively . `` I should like it , dear , but you are full of engagements for to - morrow , and we are due at the Opera tonight . '' `` Trifles , all ; as you are willing , we shall be on the wing to-night . '' _ Tres bien ma chere _ ; I shall give the orders , but there will be three or four pairs of wistful eyes looking for your _ entree _ at the opera , to-night . ''