“If we ignore the glaring fact that we would have been spared that abhorrent ordeal if you had listened to me in the first place, and that I told you so at least three times and was ignored, the obvious question that now begs to be asked, Diana, is—did you at least manage to hear anything useful?” Diana emerged from the cocoon of the shawl like a firework. “You are insufferable!” In the absence of the prayed-for thunderbolt, she whacked him over his irritating head with her reticule. “Insufferable, incorrigible, and irritating in the extreme!” “But right!” he said, still laughing at her. “You
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