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decorating, and all the tables and things to lay out for tomorrow, and a girl does worry. You might have been eaten, or run over by a bus, or anything.”
“Not eaten, my angel, not in Suffolk,” said Atherton. “It was the queerest thing,” he went on. “I just went into town to say cheerio to Charlie Higgins from school – frightfully good chap, he’s off to India, you know, really thought I’d better say goodbye – anyway, Charlie said his old man had a sort of Saxon thing he was trying to get shot of, and would I like a squint at it? Well, once he’d told me what it was, I couldn’t very well say no, could I? So I thought I’d just pop down—”
“Leaving me to deal with all your hideous relations on my own,” said Mary. “Present
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