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Stilling, that night after dinner, had surpassed himself.He always did, Wrayford reflected, when the small fry fromHighfield came to dine.

He, Cobham Stilling, who had tofind his bearings and keep to his level in the big heedlessironic world of New York, dilated and grew vast in thecongenial medium of Highfield.

The Red House was thebiggest house of the Highfield summer colony, andCobham Stilling was its biggest man.

No one else within aradius of a hundred miles (on a conservative estimate) hadas many horses, as many greenhouses, as many servants,and assuredly no one else had three motors and a motorboat for the lake.