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The object of the narrator's affections becomes jealous after overhearing him in conversation with one of his 'chums' referring to 'his old girl,' - who, as it transpires, is not quite the girl she appears to be.
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'[this happened] in the suburbs of the city of Sydbourne ... Perhaps it was Sydney, perhaps it was Melbourne - and perhaps it was neither.'
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