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The Uncle: Miss Giddens, may I ask you a somewhat personal question? Do you have an imagination?
Miss Giddens: Oh!
[chuckles]
Miss Giddens: Oh, yes, I can answer that. Yes.
The Uncle: Good. Truth is very seldom understood by any but imaginative persons... and I want to be quite truthful.
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The Uncle: I'm a bachelor but not I might add a lonely one. I spend a great deal of time abroad and as for my London life, well, it amuses me, but it's not the sort of amusement that one could suitably share with children. In brief Miss Giddens, I'm a very selfish fellow, and the last man alive to be saddled so suddenly and so awkwardly with two orphaned infants. It's most unfortunate, as I have no room for them mentally or emotionally. Does that seem quite heartless?
Martin Stephens
Extended Reading
