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CHAPTER THREEHermia rose very early and put on the riding skirt she had made herself. She remembered Marilyn’s instructions not to doll herself up and decided that it would be best not to wear her riding hat. If she was supposed to have ridden off in a hurry to find her cousin, she would not have bothered about herself, but would have run out of the house as she was. What was more, the Marquis, if he noticed her at all, would think that she looked very countrified and certainly not smart like the ladies he usually rode with. As she dressed she thought how much her father and mother would disapprove of her acting a lie even to please her cousin. However, it was the first time Marilyn had asked her to do anything for her for a very long time and Hermia thought that she must not only hel