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Jones has been absent from the NBC morning show since last December, when she excused herself to handle “a family health matter.”

The case called for a hearing at the High Court in Glasgow, where the attendance of Dott was excused.

The defendant did not mention this skirmish to Ms Staniforth when, 15 minutes later, he went to her office to ask to be excused from his science lesson in order to avoid two other students.

Our hosts excused themselves before dessert to get up to the lounge in time for dancing.

I nodded, said something like, “Thanks for telling me,” and excused myself to my room.