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It was really not to be expected that filial obedience
should reign at Mannering.
* * * * *
The twins had long left the subject of the embargo on Chetworth, and
were wrangling and chaffing over the details of Desmond's packing,
when there was a knock at the door.
Pamela stiffened at once.
'Come in!'
Miss Bremerton entered.
'Are you very busy?'
'Not at all!' said Desmond politely, scurrying with his best Eton
manners to find a chair for the newcomer. 'It's an awful muddle, but
that's Pamela!'
Pamela aimed a sponge-bag at him, which he dodged, and Elizabeth
Bremerton sat down.
'I want to hold a council with you,' she said, turning a face just
touched with laughter from one to the other. 'Do you mind?'
'Certainly not,' said Desmond, sitting on the floor with his hands
round his knees. 'What's it about?' And he gave Pamela's right foot
a nudge with his left by way of conveying to her that he thought her
behaviour ungracious. Pamela hurriedly murmured, 'Delighted.


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