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The second thing that happened that summer was that totally by 33 ______, through the creative writing professor, she got a summer job in Washington working for a major publisher for two months.

The professor called her and asked if she’d be interested, and Julie wanted the 34 ______. It was a different publisher than her own, and she wanted to learn more about the business.

She discussed it with Celesta that night, who encouraged her to do it, and she 35 ______ the next day. It was an internship so the pay was minimal, but she had the money from her book deal, and still more than enough of what her father had left her.

It was going to be an exciting summer for her. Julie loved being in Washington and learning more about publishing, and writing a completely different kind of book than she wrote before, 36 ______ her first two books had terrific reviews.

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Daphne was a fan of Bedford Castle show. She watched a new scene being shot early the next morning when she went for a walk before breakfast. The actors were different this time, some of the younger stars, and the father on the show with them. Daphne 30 ______ them all and stood rapt until they finished shooting.

She couldn’t 31 ______ getting tired of it or becoming blasé about it. It was magical watching them.

After breakfast, she walked up to the castle, and waited for a 32 ______ of the parts they showed visitors. The history of the place was fascinating. Its heyday of opulence and luxury had been in the nineteenth and earlier part of the twentieth century.

The Bedford family had had serious reverses after the Crash of 1929. Changing times had continued to diminish their fortune after the Second World War, and by the 1960s they were in serious 33 ______ .

However, they 34 ______ to hang on to the castle and estate by selling works of art, valuable objects like Faberge boxes, or the occasional investment that did well. The guide explained that the parts of the castle being used to film the show were the most beautiful but the tourists couldn’t see them at the moment because they were in use for filming on a daily basis.

Learning about it was fascinating and Daphne bought a book about the family and the castle on the way out. She learnt that nothing had changed much in the castle. The family couldn’t 35 ______ it.