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Only their parents seemed unaware that the room might as well have been bugged, and that most of the important decisions they had made in that room as they sipped after-dinner cognac or cups of coffee were known (to their daughters, at least) long before the marching orders were handed down from staff headquarters.
Sólo los padres parecían ignorar que lo que hablaban en aquella estancia podía oírse fuera y que la mayor parte de las decisiones que se adoptaban en la sala de estar/comedor, mientras se tomaban el café y la copa de coñac de sobremesa, se solían conocer (al menos por parte de sus hijas) mucho antes de que el estado mayor del cuartel general transmitiera las órdenes oportunas.
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