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wonderful-looking old-fashioned red vehicle with the firemen all standing and holding on to the sides – arrived, there was very little for them to do except inspect the damage, smoke cigarettes, and devour the tea and shortbread that Eileen and Cook brought down on tea trays. It tasted just like twenty-first-century tea and shortbread, only the tea was rather strong, and the shortbread slightly sooty.
Dora and Henry and Alex and Ruby sat on the edge of the horse trough and drank their tea and watched. Nearly everyone – well, all of the men, and one or two of the younger women, who Alex supposed must be lady anthropologist friends of Mary’s – was smoking. Most of them had
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