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‘I have no idea, my dear fellow. I know nothing of him. I have merely spoken to him on the telephone. Why?’

‘Oh, nothing. I’ll ask him when he arrives. Where are you going?’

‘Into the garden.’

‘It’s raining.’

‘I have my macintosh. I really – 1 feel I really must walk about after what you have told me. I am in a state of considerable excitement.’

‘Well, work it off before you see Constance again. It won’t do to have her start suspecting there’s something up. If there’s anything you want to ask me about, you’ll find me in the smoking-room.’

For some twenty minutes the hall of Blandings Castle remained empty. Then Beach appeared. At the same moment, from the gravel outside there came the purring of a high-powered car and the sound of voices. Beach posed himself in the doorway, looking, as he always did on these occasions, like the Spirit of Blandings welcoming the lucky guest.

9 ENTER SUE ‘Leave the door open, Beach,’ said Lady Constance. ‘Very good, your ladyship/

‘I think the smell of the wet earth and the flowers is so refreshing, dont you?’

The butler did not. He was not one of your fresh-air men. Rightly conjecturing, however, that the question had been addressed not to him but to the girl in the beige suit who had accompanied the speaker up the steps, he forbore to reply He cast an appraising bulging-eyed look at this girl and decided that she met with his approval. Smaller and slighter than the type of woman he usually admired, he found her, nevertheless, even by his own exacting standards of criticism, noticeably attractive. He liked her face and he liked the way she was dressed. Her frock was right, her shoes were right, her stockings were right, and her hat was right. As far as Beach was concerned, Sue had passed the Censor.

Her demeanour pleased him, too. From the flush on her face and the sparkle in her eyes, she seemed to be taking her first entry into Blandings Castle in quite the proper spirit of reverential excitement. To be at Blandings plainly meant something to her, was an event in her life: and Beach, who after many years of residence within its walls had come to look on the Castle as a piece of personal property, felt flattered and gratified.

‘I dont think this shower will last long/ said Lady Constance.

‘No,’ said Sue, smiling brightly.

‘And now you must be wanting some tea after your journey.’

‘Yes,’ said Sue, smiling brightly.

It seemed as if she had been smiling brightly for centuries. The moment she had alighted from the train and found her formidable hostess and this strangely sinister Mr Baxter waiting to meet her on the platform, she had begun to smile brightly and had been doing it ever since.

‘Usually we have tea on the lawn. It is so nice there.’

It must be.’

‘When the rain is over, Mr Baxter, you must show Miss Schoonmaker the rose-garden.’

‘I shall be delighted,’ said the Efficient Baxter.

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