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Sophy Fullgarney is suspicious of the Marquess of Quex, fiancé of her foster sister, Muriel Eden. Quex is wildly known as a notorious philanderer; though he claims to have reformed for Muriel’s sake, Sophy doesn’t believe his claims of redemption. Earlier this evening, she set out to catch Quex in an act of unfaithfulness to his betrothed. Her spying has seemingly paid off, after discovering him with the Duchess of Strood in her bedroom after midnight. Quex, fearful of losing his fiancé,
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_([Quex] immediately locks the door at which [the Duchess] has departed and slips the key into his waistcoat pocket. This done, he pulls the bell-rope communicating with the maid’s room and takes up a position against the wall so that the opening of the passage door conceals him from the view of the person entering. After a pause the door is opened and Sophy appears.
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