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Holidays

Ronald and Brenda embarked on their journey to Wales to spend their holidays in Templeton Castle, the ancestral home of Lord and Lady Usher, Brenda's late grandparents. The castle evoked many joyful memories – they 30                           how they had spent a holiday there just before Ronald went up to Cambridge. They ventured through the hills together during the day, seldom returning to the castle before the sun had 31                           behind the highest mountain. They 32                           delectable food, and after supper, they settled by a roaring log fire, engrossed in novels and short stories.

After a fortnight, a time filled with more encounters with cattle than with humans, they reluctantly embarked on the lengthy journey back to London. They 33                           at the Russell House with great anticipation of a life of domestic tranquility. 34                          , it was not to be.

Ronald's mother-in-law confessed that she could 35                           wait to get Billy off her hands. Tears before bedtime had occurred once too often, she shared with them as her cat leapt up onto her mistress's lap and promptly fell asleep. "Frankly, you haven't returned a moment too soon," she added. "I haven't 36                           to complete a crossword once in the past fortnight." Ronald expressed his gratitude to his mother-in-law for her understanding, and he and Brenda took their hyperactive five-year-old son back to the Russell House.