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Tommy Totteridge, the Viscount of Marchwold, known as Totters to his friends.
Egypt, a place that was all the rage following the discovery, by Howard Carter and his patron Lord Carnarvon, of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.
I’m Derek Delaney. My band
the fabulous Dashing Dashwoods.”
Mr Henry T. Eisenbach of Pittsburgh,
his daughter Carolyne,
his son, ...
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Chief Inspector Blount of Scotland Yard.
Tilly Walton, Eleanor’s maid and confidante,
“Bonjour, my lady. Le petit déjeuner sera prêt en dix minutes. Voici le café.”
smock-ravelled?
Rowsley Park, the family estate in Derbyshire,
Bakewell House, their London Residence,
vesta /ˈvestə/ I. noun ‹chiefly historical› a short wooden or wax match. – origin mid 19th cent.: from the name of the goddess Vesta.
Nor
crumpet /ˈkrəmpət/ I. noun a thick, flat, savory cake with a soft, porous texture, made from a yeast mixture cooked on a griddle and eaten toasted and buttered. – origin late 17th cent.: of unknown origin.
the valet was called Golding
maid was a French girl called Louise Leclerc,
Theodore Jensen,
Secretary
belladonna, the beautiful lady.”
belladonna /ˌbeləˈdänə/ I. noun 1. deadly nightshade. 2. a drug prepared from the leaves and root of this, containing atropine. – origin mid 18th cent.: from modern Latin, from Italian bella donna ‘fair lady,’ perhaps from the use of its juice to add brilliance to the eyes by dilating the pupils.
Major Peter Armitage,
Military Intelligence
Eisenbach was in the country to see members of His Majesty’s government.”
The man from Military Intelligence may not have known who she was, but she had certainly recognised him.
spill2 /spil/ I. noun a thin strip of wood or paper used for lighting a fire, candle, pipe, etc. – origin Middle English (in the sense ‘sharp fragment of wood’): obscurely related to spile. The current sense dates from the early 19th cent.
“He only joined them just before they set sail from New York. The previous secretary wasn't fit to travel, having been involved in an accident.”
Ettore Bugatti was a French car manufacturer of high-performance automobiles, founded in 1909 in the then-German city of Molsheim, Alsace by the Italian-born industrial designer Ettore Bugatti. The cars were known for their design beauty and for their many race victories. Famous Bugattis include the Type 35 Grand Prix cars, the Type 41 "Royale", the Type 57 "Atlantic" and the Type 55 sports car.
The death of Ettore Bugatti in 1947 proved to be the end for the marque, and the death of his son Jean Bugatti in 1939 ensured there was not a successor to lead the factory. No more than about 8,000 cars were made. The company struggled financially, and released one last model in the 1950s, before eventually being purchased for its airplane parts business in 1963
sidecar /ˈsīdˌkär/ noun 2. a cocktail of brandy and lemon juice with orange liqueur.
lady in my own right as the daughter of a duke, not because I'm married to a lord.
Ella Rowsley — the name she had taken in those difficult times.
Bugatti Brescia.
There were only three people who knew that password, the Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary, and me.”
Me= Armitage
“I’m afraid you can’t see the cloakroom attendant. Harry Lamb has just been murdered!”
“Collingwood Place is where Ferret Fortescue has his flat.
