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  • The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son. Then: "Oh, Rupert, darling," she exclaimed in tones of theatrical despair, "don't you see? The game's up!

    Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Secret Countess”, p.170, Pan Macmillan