Problem retrieving second level from dictionary of dictionaries (VBA in Excel 2007)

I'm trying to employ the dictionary of dictionaries techniques mentioned in a reply to a recent question about storing information where the number of items to be held is unpredictable.  I'm having trouble retrieving the second level dictionary.

To diagnose what was going on I've set up the following code.

Sub TestingDictionaries()

    Dim Phrases As Scripting.Dictionary         '   Dictionary of Phrases
    Dim WordsInPhrase As Scripting.Dictionary   '   Dictionary of the non trivial words in each phrase
    Dim vPhrases As Variant
    Dim vWords As Variant

    Dim iPhrase As Integer, iWord As Integer
    
    Dim wsPhrases As Worksheet
                
    Worksheets.Add(After:=Worksheets(Worksheets.Count)).Name = "Phrases"
    Set wsPhrases = Worksheets("Phrases") ' List of extracted words
    
    Set Phrases = New Scripting.Dictionary
    Phrases.CompareMode = vbTextCompare

    Set WordsInPhrase = New Scripting.Dictionary
    WordsInPhrase.CompareMode = vbTextCompare
    
'   Load dummy contents

    For iPhrase = 1 To 10
    
        For iWord = 1 To 5
        
            WordsInPhrase.Add iWord, "Word #" & iWord & " in phrase #" & iPhrase
            
        Next iWord
        
'   Dump WordsInPhrase back out to test that it loaded
        
        For iWord = 1 To WordsInPhrase.Count
        
            wsPhrases.Cells(15 + iPhrase + 1, iWord + 2).Value = WordsInPhrase.Item(iWord)
        
        Next iWord
                   
        Phrases.Add "Dummy phrase #" & iPhrase, WordsInPhrase
        WordsInPhrase.RemoveAll
            
    Next iPhrase
    
'   ALL OK TO HERE -------------------------------------------------------

    vPhrases = Phrases.Keys
    
    For iPhrase = 0 To UBound(vPhrases)
    
        wsPhrases.Cells(iPhrase + 1, 1).Value = vPhrases(iPhrase)
        
        Set WordsInPhrase = Phrases.Item(vPhrases(iPhrase))
        
        For iWord = 1 To WordsInPhrase.Count
        
            wsPhrases.Cells(iPhrase + 1, iWord + 2).Value = WordsInPhrase.Item(iWord)
        
        Next iWord
                    
    Next iPhrase

End Sub

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Down to the comment "ALL OK TO HERE" it behaves as expected.

The variant vPhrases retrieves the keys to the Phrases dictionary fine and the loop For iPhrase/Next iPhrase behaves as it should but the subsidiary dictionary WordsInPhrase is not retrieved by the line


The value of WordsInPhrase.Count is zero

I presume It's a simple error on my part but I'm having trouble tracking it down and any assistance will be most welcome.