‘I shall take the later train. Then I need not hurry, and can walk down at my ease.’
‘How nice of you!’
‘I am not sure that Dinton will think so.’
‘Only one little hour of difference—what can it matter?’
‘They don’t run offices on those lines. An hour means a good deal in the City of London.’
‘Oh, I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.’
‘I suppose that it separates a good many loving couples every morning.’
He had come across and an egg-cup had been upset. Then he had been scolded, and they sat together laughing upon the sofa. When he had finished admiring her little, shining, patent-leather, Louis shoes and the two charming curves of open-work black stocking, she reminded him that he had asked for her advice.
‘Yes, dear, what was it?’ She knitted her brows and tried to look as her father did when he considered a matter of business. But then her father was not hampered by having a young man’s arm round his neck. It is so hard to be business-like when any one is curling one’s hair round his finger.
‘I have some money to invest.’