As far as her father was concerned this was ....... double trouble (two problems) — first working for Fortune
and now getting involved in a demonstration.
One morning there was quite a hubbub (loud noise and activity) in the Fortune ....... when Cathy came rushing
into the sitting room helter skelter (running at great speed),
After all she thought her brother was enjoying himself and had gone ....... to work in America as a result of the
brain drain (talented people leaving their own country to work for better pay in another).
Cathy didn't believe any of this and was delighted to be working for Geoffrey Winton if for no other ....... than
that living at home was very humdrum (boring).
What her mother and father ....... to most was the endless tittle tattle (gossip) in the village about a young
woman working for this hot shot (well known entrepreneur),
They lived in a des res (very attractive house) and her father, John Fortune, who was really a bit of a fat cat
(wealthy businessman) thought that all this animal ....... was a lot of hocus pocus (nonsense).
But as far ....... Cathy was concerned, he was the bee's knees (someone to admire) and when she left school,
she went to work as his assistant in the Society for the Protection of Animals.
In fact because he had refused to kow tow to (accept without question) some of the official regulations, he had
been forced to take ....... retirement.
These people were not at all fuddy duddy (uninteresting) or indeed hoity toity (supercilious) and their main
interest in life was to ....... that all animals were well treated.