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We never used to go away for more than a week every summer to Brighton or Herne Bay, but now that we live in the heart of the town, as of course St. John's Wood is, it has been decided that we want a whole month at the sea. This year Mother and Aunt Gerty chose Whitby in Yorkshire. It is convenient for Aunt Gerty -- something about a company that she is thinking of joining in the autumn. George didn't care where we went, as he isn't to be with us. He just forks out the money as Mother asks for it; he trusts her implicitly not to waste it, and to do things as cheap as they can be done and yet decently, because after all we _are_ his family, and everybody knows that now.
I sometimes think he would come with us himself, if Aunt Gerty wasn't so much about.