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"Broken heart? Nonsense. People with broken hearts don't eat chestnut-pudding like that," quoth Grandpapa.
Lydia would have preferred to make her own explanations at Regency Terrace, but Miss Nettleship had already written a long letter to Aunt Beryl, as Lydia discovered when she reached home on Christmas Eve.