Under the Mistletoe
“Lady Enid Penn said with an affected sigh. “There is positively no one with whom to amuse oneself except parents and aunts and uncles and cousins by the score and nothing to do except feast and make merry—with one’s own family!”There was a murmur of sympathetic agreement from several other young ladies.“I shall simply die,” the Honorable Miss Elspeth Lynch informed her listeners, “if the Worsleys remain in town for the holiday, as they did last year, instead of returning home. Patricia Worsley ...is my dearest bosom friend, and Howard Worsley is . . . well, he is interesting.” She looked around archly at her companions, who tittered on cue.“If one were only sixteen instead of fifteen,” the Honorable Miss Deborah Latimer said, adding her sigh to everyone else’s. “One’s parents and aunts and uncles and all their friends have a wonderful time dancing and partaking of the wassail bowl and staying up almost until dawn while one is banished to the nursery and to bed with the children.”“And what about you, Craggs?”MoreLess
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