In fact, I was dreaming of a carefree game of duck-duck-goose when I awoke at the lodge to the happy clink of the coffee tray outside my door.

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But when I awoke, to see the puppet von Trapp children gathered on puppet Maria's puppet bed, I thought back to what the theatre's managing director had said, backstage, in amongst the delicately carved and painted marionettes.

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