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Dateline:  Tilling,  "Any News?"   The Count and Countess diFaraglione

Your local "Any News" correspondent learned of the unexpected visit of the Count and Countess diFaraglione when invited to have a late breakfast at the Porpoise Street Home of Algernon Wyse, of the Wyses of Whitchurch, and his wife Susan, MBE, the former Mrs. Poppit.  The diFaraglione's are making a tour of our country,  beginning with a visit to the Countess' brother, Mr. Wyse.

The Count diFaraglione, Cecco, is out to take the air and to investigate a charming village he has heard so much about.  The Countess, Amelia, is headed for the High Street looking for "Any News."

Mrs. Emmeline Lucas, at the fishmonger's, is still unaware of the presence of the Wyse's  guests.

Mr. Georgie Pillson and Mrs. Lucas eye the market baskets of Elizabeth Mapp-Flint and Diva Plaistow.

In reply to the usual question of "Any news?"  the two ladies, in their be-flowered dresses, relate what they heard at the greengrocer's:  that Mr. Wyse's sister Amelia and her husband, the Count, have made an unexpected visit to Tilling.

The diFaraglione's pay a call at Mallards and will leave their card if no one is at home.

Mrs. Lucas and Mr. Pillson are at the station, having remembered they are expected at a meeting in London of a newly-formed charitable society that will work to aid the families of poor cod fishermen lost at sea.  They have already donned their nametags for the meeting as they wait for Foljambe to retrieve Mr. Pillson's market basket before they can leave.

Amelia has searched the town over, wondering where this intriguing Mrs. Lucas could possibly be.   She has never had the opportunity to meet Mrs. Lucas or Mr. Pillson, known to their friends as Lucia and Georgie.

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