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182 "The thing he played," said Mr. Wilmerdings, "—I must confess I did not like to charge him to his face. But really! It was merely drifting."

"Just fooling with a fiddle, eigh?" said George Harringay. "Well, I thought it was beyond me. So much of your fine music is"

"Oh, George!" said the youngest Miss Pirbright.

"The Vicar was a bit on too—to judge by his tie," said Mr. Rathbone-Slater. "It's a dashed nimmy go. Did you notice how he fussed after the genius?"

"One has to be so very careful," said the very eldest Miss Papaver.

"He told me he is in love with the Vicar's housemaid!" said Mrs. Jehoram. "I almost laughed in his face."

"The Vicar ought never to have brought him here," said Mrs. Rathbone-Slater with decision.