usual family scenes in which frank. ness was the motif. He started out by being helpful, as the aftermath of a good month in Japan, and under this impulse he even rang up his pompous friend with, the world's most weighty library and put in a good word for his little sister during her self-improvement period. The pompous friend on the eve of Teaving town sent a little note to all my tennis frocks until David came cit of his shell and said even Shanghai was known to have limits. The number one boy developed a genius for putting me in the wrong by quoting "Before No, 1. Missie zo" Dering the day there was a chaise Tengue to stick to, a series of illnesses sweeping through from the the sewage from cook to the lowest, though none less diligently ill, me saying "Don't take Carlyle too! menial.
Dinner parties which didn't strenuously during the hot weather go off properly, usually due and don't look in the back Da Jessfield Park en the shelves or my ife wine re I caught a sammer cold, dane-would never forgive me for handing over the keys to the cases."
Then the "hottest summer" happened and I had to have breakfast in my roam, David grew ° such grouse. He began "throwing _remarks about how easy my "days must be as at least I could keep cool by keeping quiet, whereas he, ete. ete. Once he said, "How many ing, and open air cinemas at night to add to misery. Absolutely.no the. worst of it, Do-stage ju due course and invited Isabella t6 spend a few weeks here in order to relax from the usual heat of Hongkong. At the same me she arrived, the mails became temporarily flooded with personal requests from all sorts of people like yourself, perfectly content at the side' were it not for one forgotten thing. The difference that 'a picture frame left behind can make in the life of a holiday-maker will never again seem extraordinary to me.
Then a friend's cat came to join for the last part of the summer in order to receive proper attentions while his mistress was away. Isabella doesn't care for eats, and blame ed it for the two burnt patches on the grand piano which she deciares came from, on separate times, hav-been frightened by sudden movements of the cat which made her Teave her cigarette at large.
"Anyway, one of the canaries died ina mysterious manner the second week, which makes me think that there is something to the idea of ills advised hospitality after all, And'as for honey at tea, neither Isabella nor had enough appetite to take: tea during the very hot weather...We thought it a wonderful opportunity to get back to normal, both of, us being about ton' pounds over. So that's really the only use Tean see having spent the summer here instead of with you as we first planned.
How much longer are you there? Wire reply as I will join you you are not returning at once.
Affectionately yours, "Dobbie.
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