Because Benham made it perfectly clear what he had thought and felt
about this hat.
Such was the illuminating young man whom Lady Marayne decided to
invite to Chexington, into the neighbourhood of herself, Sir
Godfrey, and her circle of friends.
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He was quite anxious to satisfy the requirements of Benham's people
and to do his friend credit. He was still in the phase of being a
penitent pig, and he inquired carefully into the needs and duties of
a summer guest in a country house. He knew it was quite a
considerable country house, and that Sir Godfrey wasn't Benham's
father, but like most people, he was persuaded that Lady Marayne had
divorced the parental Benham. He arrived dressed very neatly in a
brown suit that had only one fault, it had not the remotest
suggestion of having been made for him. It fitted his body fairly
well, it did annex his body with only a few slight
incompatibilities, but it repudiated his hands and face. He had a
conspicuously old Gladstone bag and a conspicuously new despatch
case, and he had forgotten black ties and dress socks and a hair
brush.
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