"Of course I shall go."
She did not answer him, and he read in her silence a disapproval.
"You don't want me to," he said.
"I don't mind, dear. It's for you to decide."
"But you'd rather I didn't?"
"Well, dear, I was only thinking that as you've been away from us for three months, and...."
"Yes, mother, and what?"
"Well, dear, to go away, the very first week-end."
"But you'll be seeing lots of me all the week."
"I wasn't thinking of us, though of course we like to have you here. It was April; don't you think it might rather hurt her feelings?"