Drat!

[poliphilo]

 My sister offers a mundane explanation of the Freddy thing. She thinks my mother misheard the name of the person who runs the home and has been calling her Freddy instead of Gabby.  Drat! I was hoping Freddy would turn out to be a teenage crush or a wartime romance (how about a Spitfire pilot?) or at the very least a well-loved pooch or pony...