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Late one July afternoon, Amanda Alexander Blakeney had ensconced herself with Queen Victoria in a shady corner of the terrace, and was looking forward to an hour of tranquil enjoyment with Lehzen's caraway seeds, and Lord M. To her vexation, the very first paragraph was punctuated for her by footsteps on the brick walk; and peering through the pine boughs, she spied a gay young pair who had evidently just descended from a car, left in quite the wrong place in her courtyard.
"I hope," she said to herself, "it isn't another brazen couple come to ask if this is a ‘gift-shop-'n'-tea-house,' and can they have something wet. Well, they'll hear from me, and-"