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请问这段英文是啥意思There could hardly have been a more ill-advised answer,but Amherst was reckless now.If she cared for his coming only that he might fill a place at a fancy-dress dinner,he would let her see that he had come only because he had to go through the form of submitting to her certain measures to be taken at Westmore.Not yet...he may be travelling,Justine faltered,unwilling to say that her telegram had been returned.As she spoke there was a tap on the door,and a folded paper was handed in--a telegram telephoned from the village