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She would telephone to Praddy and invite herself and Frank to tea at his studio after she had left the Rossiters . Mrs. Rossiter was used to unexpected guests at lunch . People on terms of familiarity dropped in , or the Professor detained some colleague or pupil and made him sit down to the meal which was always prepared and seated for four . Therefore she was not particularly taken aback when her husband appeared at five minutes to one in the little drawing-room and after requesting that the macaw and the cockatoo might be removed for the nonce to a back room -- as they made sustained conversation impossible , announced that he expected momently -- ah ! there was the bell -- two persons whose acquaintance he was sure Linda would like to make . One was Captain Frank Gardner , who owned a big ranch in Rhodesia , and -- er -- the other -- oh no ! no relation -- was Miss Warren ... `` What , one of the Warrens of Huddersfield ?