“However personally disagreeable to you the process might be?”
“Probably if he were as I described him, the process would not be so disagreeable.”
He smiled. There was no denying he found her amusing.
In the meantime, the couple across the table had reached a somewhat similar point.
Hickson had said as they sat down:
“Well, and what do you think of this new fellow?”
Christine’s natural irritation appeared in her answer.
“I have hardly had an opportunity of judging,” she answered, “but, watching your sister’s attentions to him, I would say he must be extremely attractive.”
Hickson looked a little dashed.
“Oh,” he said, “Nancy does not mean anything when she goes on like that.”