While Santa is down in the kitchen regaling himself with milk and cookies, and all the Knottwood children are playing with their new toys, the remaining adults take the opportunity to quickly open their presents...
 Some presents are less tangible. Noreen Nizhoni (so unhappy at LAST year's party) has just been reunited with hometown boyfriend Pete Shirley. Pete has agreed to accept a job as Park Ranger at Knottwood Everglades while he writes his doctoral thesis instead of going back to Arizona - so Noreen is doubly happy!  Alicia and Neville have their MIRACLE baby, Robin Emily... (Alicia wouldn't let Neville call her "Robin Hood"...)  And millionaire dentist Charles Hesketh Asmundsen has just been told by wife Catriona that they're expecting their OWN bundle of joy!  |
In fact, everyone's having such a GREAT TIME, nobody notices that Isobel Hanbro has slipped quietly out of the room...
 Meanwhile, just outside the Sponge Bob room, Noreen's older sister, Dr. Agnes Nizhoni, is absorbed in finally answering sheep farmer Gordon McGregor's marriage proposal... 
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  Lord Richard listens courteously - and with growing amusement - for quite twenty minutes! He has rarely heard such eloquence. Even Farmer McGregor and Dr. Agnes put in a good word for Horace! 
 
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