devisings

Updated: June 20, 2025

Yonelet was a woman of resourceful energy and generalship; she involved the other members of the house-party, the deadweight, so to speak, in all manner of exercises and occupations that segregated them from Bertie and Dora, who were left to their own devisings that is to say, to Dora's devisings and Bertie's accommodating acquiescence.

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