"Yet I can't stay here.

What shall I do ?" "What about Uncle Eric's study ?" Di asked.

She always calls Lord Mountstuart 'Uncle Eric,' though he isn't her uncle.

Her mother and his wife were sisters, that's all: and then there was the other sister who married the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs, a cousin of Lord Mountstuart's.

That family seemed to have a craze for American girls; but Lord Mountstuart makes an exception of me.