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Two,In the drawing room conversation had flagged more than once. Mrs.?Vanderlyn was usually at adisadvantage when left alone with members of her own sex. That charming sympathetic manner ofhers, so much appreciated by members of the male sex, did not for some reason or other commenditself to women. Lady Julia was a woman whose manners were either very good or very bad. Onthis occasion she disliked Mrs.?Vanderlyn, and was bored by Mrs.?Macatta, and made no secret ofher feelings. Conversation languished ¹, and might have ceased altogether but for the latter.,Mrs.?Macatta was a woman of great earnestness of purpose. Mrs.?Vanderlyn she dismissedimmediately as a useless and parasitic ² type. Lady Julia she tried to interest in a forthcomingcharity entertainment which she was organizing. Lady Julia answered vaguely ³, stifled ⁴ a yawn ortwo and retired ⁵ into her own inner preoccupation. Why didn’t Charles and George come? Howtiresome men were. Her comments became even more perfunctory as she became absorbed in herown thoughts and worries.,The three women were sitting in silence when the men finally entered the room.,Lord Mayfield thought to himself:,“Julia looks ill tonight. What a mass of nerves the woman is.”,“What about a rubber—eh? ”,Lady Julia brightened at once. Bridge was as the breath of life to her.,Reggie Carrington entered the room at that minute, and a four was arranged. Lady Julia,Mrs.?Vanderlyn, Sir George and young Reggie sat down to the card-table. Lord Mayfield devotedhimself to the task of entertaining Mrs.?Macatta.,When two rubbers had been played, Sir George looked ostentatiously at the clock on themantelpiece.,“Hardly worth while beginning another,
” he remarked.,He languished after his dog died. 他狗死之后，人憔悴了。,Will global warming mean the spread of tropical parasitic diseases?全球变暖是否意味着热带寄生虫病会蔓延呢？