human
It’s my opinion, we were just rushed into it, said Bob, taking up the conversation from an unobservable point,
gpt
I like Nellie better than any girl I ever saw, but I confess it’s rather a knock to hear she’s been engaged three times already. Suppose I were to meet one of the other fellows when we’re married! He’d have the laugh of me, anyway.
human
Marjory’s been engaged once—she told me so. I don’t think a girl can be expected to know her own mind until she’s two or three and twenty. We’d have to take a little flat somewhere, and cut it deuced close; do you think she is the girl to do that, Bob?
gpt
She proposes to run a motor, Dick, she told me so. You’ve got fifteen hundred a year and a shooting-box in Scotland, so the hotel says. My place is in Norfolk—I suppose they mean the tent Jack Stevens and I pitched by Horsey Mere last autumn. I didn’t say so, though; let’s keep it up as long as we can; in for a penny, in for fifteen hundred pound, you know.
human
I tell you what, Bob, let’s talk to the ’little widow’ about it. I’m sure she’s a woman of the world. She’d put us straight, right enough; let’s go up and see her.
gpt
Why, where do you think she is, then?
human
Who, Mrs. Kennaird? Why, in Number 43, of course. It’s on the board, isn’t it?
gpt
The board be hanged! She’s left the hotel—she left this morning, and went up to the chalet, near Benny’s.
human
Then let’s go to the chalet after her. I’m sure she’s one of the nicest little women in the place. And she’s been married herself; she’d know what we ought to do. Let’s go and see her now.