human
Oh, down at the cottage with Lady Conybeare. So delicious and rustic; there is no one there except Lily and dear Toby. Of course we are very happy about it. And don't you find a hotel quite intolerable?
gpt
What a charming place this is, she went on;
human
Is Comber there? he asked.
gpt
Are you sure?
human
Of course I am sure, said Mrs. Murchison.
gpt
Dear me, how annoyed you look, Lord--I mean Toby. And I thought he was such a friend of your sister-in-law's and all. What is the matter?
human
Nothing--nothing at all,
gpt
What a very odd place for Lord Comber to come to! said Lily, who had grasped
human
I am sure I don't see why, said she.
gpt
Stanborough is extremely bracing and fashionable. I saw they had quite a list of fashionable arrivals there in the World yesterday. Isn't it so, Toby?
human
Perhaps he has come to play golf,
gpt
Golf? asked Mrs. Murchison vaguely.
human
Oh, that's the game, isn't it, where you dig a sandpit, and then hit the ball into it and swear? So somebody told me. It sounds quite easy.
gpt
A very accurate description, he said.
human
I'm going to play this afternoon. Hear me swear!
gpt
Come and see me before you go out, Toby,
human
Oh, mother, let me take you to the rose-garden! she said.
gpt
Shall we have coffee there as usual, Lady Conybeare?
human
Yes, dear. Take your mother out.
gpt
Well, Toby,
human
I don't wish to be either indiscreet or absurd, mother,
gpt
Nor I, said she.
human
Kit told me she was coming to Stanborough for a week, and I asked her, of course, to stay here. She said she had made arrangements to stay at the Links Hotel. Jack is not coming.
gpt
Damn Kit! he said.
human
She comes to-morrow, and that beast, I suppose, came a day or two ago. I saw somebody in the distance the day before yesterday who reminded me of him, but I didn't give another thought to it. No doubt it was he.
gpt
But Jack----
human
Oh, Jack's a fool! said Toby quickly.
gpt
You know that as well as I do, mother. Of course, he's awfully clever, and all that; but I'll be blowed if my wife ever stops at a seaside hotel with a Comber-man.
human
Thank God, I have you, Toby!
gpt
What a fool Kit is! said Toby thoughtfully.
human
There are hundreds of people there, as Mrs. Murchison says. Telegraph for Jack, mother,
gpt
We have no right, no reason to do that, she said.
human
Toby, take the thing in hand. Do your best.
gpt
Perhaps we could manage something, he said.
human
Don't say a word to Lily, mother, or to Mrs. Murchison.
gpt
Nor wash my dirty linen in public, she said.
human
Is that my habit, dear?
gpt
I'll do my best,
human
I know you will.