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GETTING INTO DEEP WATERS
In the event, it all passed off relatively easily, much to their relief. Although questioned very closely on the visit, the General’s stout assurance that everything went splendidly seemed to satisfy Aunt Emma for the moment.
‘There you are,’ she remarked complacently. ‘I told you it needed a man to deal with the situation, didn’t I?’
‘You certainly did,’ replied the General buoyantly, uplifted and immensely relieved at her acceptance of what had undoubtedly been a fiasco.
‘So how’s it all going?’ Has that captain of yours got any results yet?’
‘Oh my word,’ bluffed the General, ‘it’s coming along splendidly,’ finding comfort in the word. ‘William seemed fascinated about it all, didn’t you, my boy?’ He cast a meaningful look at his son for support.
‘Yes,
