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Iris
It was Morgan who eventually asked if no supper had been ordered for him; sitting with him below, later, at the dim delayed meal, in the presence of a great deal of corded green plush, a plate of ornamental biscuit and an aloofness marked on the part of the waiter. Mrs. Moreen had explained that they had been obliged to secure a room for the visitor out of the house; and Morgan s consolation he offered it while Pemberton reflected on the nastiness of lukewarm sauces proved to be, largely, that his circumstance would facilitate their escape.