Vile Bodies · Chapter 4 (2/2)

Miss Runcible paused and met the eyes of the Brown family once more.

“Oh, dear,” she said, “this really is all too bogus.”

Then she turned round and, trailing garlands of equatorial flowers, fled out of the room and out of the house to the huge delight and profit of the crowd of reporters and Press photographers who were already massed round the historic front door.