five
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Before a quarter of an hour was over , he had fallen into a way of conversing with quiet sarcasm ; speaking of life in London and life in the country , as if he were conscious of his second mocking self , and afraid of his own satire . Mr. Hale was puzzled . His visitor was a different man to what he had seen him before at the wedding-breakfast , and at dinner to-day ; a lighter , cleverer , more worldly man , and , as such , dissonant to Mr. Hale . It was a relief to all three when Mr. Lennox said that he must go directly if he meant to catch the five o'clock train . They proceeded to the house to find Mrs. Hale , and wish her good-bye . At the last moment , Henry Lennox 's real self broke through the crust . ` Margaret , do n't despise me ; I have a heart , notwithstanding all this good-for-nothing way of talking .