'Not Arty Kane?'
'Lord, no!'
'Nor Childwick? He's a clever chap, Childwick. Not got a sou, of course; she'd starve just the same.'
'She'd have done it before if it had been going to be Miles Childwick.'
'She'll meet some devilish fascinating chap some day, I know she will.'
'He'll ill-use her perhaps,' Airey suggested hopefully.
'Then I shall nip in, you mean? Have you been treating yourself to Drury Lane?'
Airey laughed openly, and presently Tommy himself joined in, though in a rather rueful fashion.
'Why the deuce can't we just like 'em?' he asked.
'That would be all right on the pessimistic theory of the world.'