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The next day passed slowly. It was necessary to curtail expenditure. Carefully husbanded, forty pounds will last a long time. Luckily the weather was fine, and “walking is cheap,” dictated Tuppence. An outlying picture house provided them with recreation for the evening. ,The day of disillusionment had been a Wednesday. On Thursday the advertisement had duly appeared. On Friday letters might be expected to arrive at Tommy’s rooms.,He had been bound by an honourable promise not to open any such letters if they did arrive, but to repair to the National Gallery, where his colleague would meet him at ten o’clock.,Tuppence was first at the rendezvous. She ensconced herself on a red velvet seat, and gazed at the Turners with unseeing eyes until she saw the familiar figure enter the room.,“Well? ”,“Well,” returned Mr. Beresford provokingly. “Which is your favourite picture?”,Tommy shook his head with a deep and somewhat overacted melancholy.,“I didn’t want to disappoint you, old thing, by telling you right off. It’s too bad. Good money wasted. ” He sighed. “Still, there it is. The advertisement has appeared, and—there are only two answers!”,“Tommy, you devil!” almost screamed Tuppence. “Give them to me. How could you be so mean!”,“Your language, Tuppence, your language! They’re very particular at the National Gallery. Government show, you know. And do remember, as I have pointed out to you before, that as a clergyman’s daughter—— ”,“I ought to be on the stage!” finished Tuppence with a snap.,
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