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After lunch Merlissa Benck was looking so wearied and wan ("With a white face like that," said Auntie Robbo, "you can hardly tell when it gets any whiter") that Auntie Robbo suggested that she should lie down in her room for the afternoon. She agreed quite thankfully.
"Perhaps you shouldn't have taken her up to the Splash, Hector," said Auntie Robbo when she had left them. "Not used to the climate. And Egypt's as flat as a plate. So is England for that matter. I expect the hill was too much for her."