Though reported by Miss Trudge to be remaining in bed ‘seriously ill’ she succeeded in disturbing the routine of the Fleur-de-Lys and no one, from Antoine to Gloria Gee, was allowed to forget that there was a Very Important Invalid in number four. Miss Trudge was everywhere. Because it disturbed Imogen to have the telephone in her room used, she hurried about looking distraught and carrying out Imogen’s orders. At ten o’clock arrived the first of those summoned from London to Imogen’s bedside. This was her sister Grace Marvell. After a brief interview with the suffering woman, during which she was called elegantly ‘a clumsy cow’, she was dismissed and came down to the bar for a reviver. Carolus fell into conversation with her. She was a dumpy, jolly little woman who seemed quite unperturbed by her sister’s bad temper and illness. ‘Nothing wrong with her,’ she confided to Carolus. ‘Just tantrums that’s all. But that silly old Trudge plays up to her.’ ‘Miss Trudge is devoted to your sister?’ ‘A dog-like devotion.
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