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Let me explain, and if you are angry about
what has happened you must lay all the blame on me.
"Well, you see, my dear, it was arranged nearly a month ago that
before we left your delightful house we should make a little cruise
round your charming island. But we had not expected that this would
come off so soon, when suddenly and unexpectedly that silly Mr.
Eastcliff, who has no more brains than a spring chicken, remembered
that he had promised to visit a friend who has taken a shoot in
Skye. Result--we had to make the cruise immediately or not at all,
and yet behold! our hostess was away on an urgent call of sickness,
and what in the world were we to do without her?
"Everybody was in a quandary--that wise Mr. Vivian saying it would
be 'jolly bad form by Jove' to go without you, while Mr. Eastcliffs
'deelightfully vicked' little Camilla declared it would be
'vilaynous,' and your husband vowed that his Margaret Mary could
not possibly be left behind.


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