Dearest, I’d love to have your Tina to stay — what are aunts for? — but I’m not sure if it can be managed just now.
I know you’d like her to have a change of scene after that business with her maths tutor (has he gone back to his family now, by the way?)
And I really admire her for being a vegan and only eating that food beginning with Q which I could never find round here.
She was so animated at that party of mine she turned up at, and I’m sorry she lost her nose studs.

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