‘Darling!’ Miles came to life. ‘My beloved! My heart’s easel My angel pie! Have you the car? Take me back home instantly.’ ‘That’s exactly why I came down,’ Connie added calmly. ‘Though I didn’t expect to find myself so heavily outnumbered.’ Connie’s arrival, naturally, raised even more interest than the dog’s. The Jellybone Sisters stood in a group and giggled. Dolores gave her a long look and announced, ‘Won’t anyone give me a cigarette?’ The mastiff itself started growling at Miles’ sponge bag. I leant against the hat stand, and I could only feel thankful that at least we seemed to have come to the end of our visiting list. ‘I didn’t know you were intending to settle in the East, Miles,’ Connie continued dryly. ‘You know how the heat upsets you so.’ ‘East? Me? What east?’ ‘Running off with one woman, I can understand. But I assure you four would never pass in South Kensington.’ ‘The whole picture is completely and totally false,’ Miles declared.
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