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money?’) Sebastian’s gone up,’ said Brideshead when we reached the drawing-room.
‘Yes? Shall I read?’
Julia and Rex played bezique; the tortoise, teased by the pekinese, withdrew into his shell; Lady Marchmain read The Diaiy of a Nobody aloud until, quite early, she said it was time for bed.
‘Can’t I stay up and play a little longer, mummy ? Just three game?’
‘Very well, darling. Come in and see me before you go to bed. I shan’t be asleep.’ It was plain to Mr Samgrass and me that Julia and Rex wanted to be left alone, so we went, too; it was not plain to, Brideshead, who settled down to read The Times, which he had not yet seen that day. Then, going to our side of the house, Mr Samgrass said: ‘It wasn’t at all like olden times.’
Next morning I said to Sebastian: ‘Tell me honestly, do you want me to stay on here?’
‘No, Charles, I don’t believe I do.’
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