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After his early retirement last night he was probably up with the lark this morning, and when between half-past ten and eleven his sonorous "Qui-hi!" sounded through her open window, the shock she experienced interrupted for a moment her floral industry.
It's too hot to get up and go out to the front to find it, and it's no use to shout, `Qui-hi, for everybody will be asleep. Now, what did he say? My memory feels all soaked. Now, what was it? Major John Knowle requests the presence of Mr Archibald Maine Mr Archibald Maine Archibald! What were the old people dreaming about? I don't know.
Neither the Major nor Captain Puffin were very early risers, but it was about time that the first signals of animation might be expected. Indeed, at this moment, she quite distinctly heard that muffled roar which to her experienced ear was easily interpreted to be "Qui-hi!" "So the Major has just come down to breakfast," she mechanically inferred, "and it's close on ten o'clock.
It was a little surprising that there were not more friends in the station-yard, but at the moment she heard a loud Qui-hi in the street below, and cautiously peering over the parapet, she got an admirable view of the Major in a frock-coat and tall hat. They went down the street and turned the corner.... Across the opening to the High Street there shot the figure of darling Diva.
That he had seen service in India was, indeed, probable by his referring to lunch as tiffin, and calling to his parlour-maid with the ejaculation of "Qui-hi." As her name was Sarah, this was clearly a reminiscence of days in bungalows.
Miss Mapp could not quite determine whether "love" was a sarcastic echo of "Treasure." It seemed probable. "Oh, what a dear little lobster," she said. "Look at his sweet claws." "I shall do more than look at them soon," said Irene, poking it into her basket again. "Come and have tiffin, qui-hi, I've got to look after myself to-day." "What has happened to your devoted Lucy?" asked Miss Mapp.
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