'Yes, I wanted to ask you——' He stopped, ostensibly to put the cigar into his meerschaum holder.
She perceived that the desire to ingratiate fought within him against his vexation, and she wondered, with a touch of cynicism, what new scheme had got possession of him, and how her assistance was necessary to it.
'Would you like to go and live in the country, Nora?' He looked at her audaciously for a moment and then his eyes shifted.
'For the summer, you mean?'
'Yes,' he said, 'for the summer and the winter too. Somewhere out Sneyd way.'
'And leave here?'
'Exactly.'
'But what about the house, Jack?'
'Sell it, if you like,' said John lightly.
'Oh, no! I shouldn't like that at all,' she replied, nervously but amiably. She wished to believe that his suggestion about selling the house was merely an idle notion thrown out on the spur of the moment, but she could not.