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On that particular November evening, Viner, a young gentleman of means and leisure who lived with his maiden aunt, Miss Bethia Penkridge, in a comfortable old house in Bayswater, had spent his after-dinner hours as had become his habit. Miss Penkridge, a model housekeeper and an essentially worthy woman whose whole…

• What problem did Viner have with reading to his aunt?
• What most drove Miss Penkridge's taste in novels?