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Making a fine plan is all very well, especially when you are sitting back in a railway coach, flying through the night, feeling full of food and sleepy and irresponsible. But when you have to carry out that plan, it is a very different matter.
In the next seven hectic days, Hector often wished that he had never suggested that Brinsley Burston should do anything so silly as to take home three false nephews; and he wished oftener that Auntie Robbo hadn't had the diabolical idea of making him one of them and herself the governess. Not that the plan was unsuccessful; Auntie Robbo saw to that; but it was its very success that made it trying in the long run.