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  ‘It’s just that with all this charging around and about,’ said Powerscourt, trying to sound grave and serious, ‘we’ve hardly had any time to ourselves at all.’

  Around and behind them the vast display of naval pomp and arrogance, the cruisers, the destroyers, the battleships might have been in the Pacific Ocean rather than the peaceful waters of the Solent.

  Lady Lucy teased him. ‘I do hope your shoulder’s better,’ she said with a mischievous smile.

  ‘I think it’s almost better now.’ Powerscourt removed the sling and put his left arm around Lady Lucy’s waist in a trial run. He held her tight.

  ‘What were you going to suggest, Francis?’ His wife gazed innocently up into her husband’s face.

  ‘Let’s go home, Lucy,’ said Powerscourt.

  ’Francis,’ Lady Lucy replied, ‘that would be delightful. I’m rather tired of hotels just at the moment. Let’s go home.’

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