It was all over in a minute. Declan got up and seized the receiver. Please accept my apology. Back in the marquee, Caitlin was hastily rewriting new name cards for people Taggie had seriously misspelt.
It was Georgie Baines, who'd shed his Father Christmas disguise and was now wearing a dark suit and fluffing up his dark curls. ' Declan winced as he bent down to retrieve an unopened letter that had fallen under the table among the debris of biros and pencils chewed up by Claudius. ''Probably didn't want you to make other arrangements,' said Rupert, emptying the bottle into her glass. ''Why hasn't he got a neck?' Patrick hurled a snowball into the woods.
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