There was to be a party: some of Annie's friends, one friend of Paul's, a young man in the same office where William had previously been, and Miriam.
It was great excitement writing for rooms.

Paul and his mother debated it endlessly between them.

They wanted a furnished cottage for two weeks.

She thought one week would be enough, but he insisted on two.
At last they got an answer from Mablethorpe, a cottage such as they wished for thirty shillings a week.

There was immense jubilation.