But, given their big neighbour's complaisance about Mexican waywardness, how long will that last?

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One day they may come to rue their complaisance.

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An awkward dinner in June 1945, at which Duff's evident interest in Daisy de Cabrol has fiercely wounded his current paramour, Loulou de Palffy, prompts a diary entry some days later that illustrates his wife's devoted complaisance.

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