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secretary-companions
Victor.’
my husband’s brother, you know, and his partner.’
just arrived on a visit. He has been out in West Africa for the past few years.’
temper, and Victor’s, since he came back from Africa, has been simply too shocking.
Owen Trefusis was about thirty-three years of age,
Mr Owen Trefusis was a prim, proper young man, disarmingly meek, the type of man who can be, and is, systematically bullied.
he came in and hauled me over the coals for some trifling matter about a letter. I went up with him to the Tower room and set the thing straight;
At eleven o’clock Lady Astwell came in, and Sir Reuben told me I could go to bed.’
a velvet curtain in the corner of the room nearest the door, where a small spiral staircase led upwards.
The stairs led up to the tower where the telescope was fixed.
‘Victor is a partner,’ she explained. ‘He went out to Africa to look into some mining concessions for the firm.
Miss Lily is just like a lily, isn’t she, sir? So tall and such a lovely shade of gold hair.’
George did as he was bid. He had long ago ceased to wonder at the vagaries of his master.
real name is Lily Naylor, and Humphrey is my only brother.
gold-mine,
was a strange mixture of Flemish thrift and artistic fervour.
