Dance to Your Daddy

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Eiladh Beatrice Margaret Gavin, having put her fist in the minister's eye, submitted with placid fatalism to the ceremony of baptism. She was a happy baby and, since happiness has no history, she passes, for the purposes of the chronicler, into almost total obscurity.

'Well, that's that,' observed Laura, her mother, when the cortege had returned to the Stone House in the village of Wandles Parva, 'and now it's time I got back to work.'

'I may not need you yet,' said Dame Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, who employed her as secretary and treated her as a favourite daughter. 'I am invited to pay a visit of indefinite length to a certain Romilly Lestrange, who claims to be a distant connection of mine by marriage. He lives, it seems, at a place called Galliard Hall.'

'Romilly? You haven't mentioned him before, have you?'

'For the sufficient reason that, until I received his letter, I was unaware of his existence.'

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