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They seemed to have a rather louche attitude to the idea of working for a living, although by Missie's own account they were impoverished. In fact Missie and the other 'Bright Young Things' seem to have had strangely charmed lives. Missie, however, escaped although she and another aristocrat seemed to court the attentions of the German authorities by conniving to bring food to their imprisoned colleagues and communicate with them.
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