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  Mr Chubb made a vague noise suggestive of assent.

  “As a matter of fact,” his wife continued pleasantly, “we aren’t all that fond of it ourselves—polishing brass isn’t my idea of pleasure—so Mr Chubb has been after a replacement. There was one he went to see the other week, but he left it until rather late in the evening and it had gone. It sounded awfully attractive in the advert.—Japanese ebony, or something, I think it was—do you remember, Harcourt?”

  Mr Chubb stared gravely at his nails, then at the ceiling. “Sorry, my dear...it’s gone clean out of my head.”

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