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Then they all started coming: Mrs Nielson arrived almost simultaneously with Howard Culpepper. She had, by arrangement, brought Gustave {'I know other people's dogs are a pain, but he does bark when I'm out and annoy the neighbours'), and we put him up in our bedroom. Then Mary arrived, with a conspicuously sober demeanour, like a Roman virgin at her first orgy of the season. She was terribly and unremittingly sweet to everyone. Then Marcus and Father Battersby got back from calling on the town's oldest communicant, with whom Father Battersby, it |