Round the world twice since I saw you.

Parbury.

What did you see on the other side?

Gunning.

Just what one sees on this side; there is always a man—and a woman.

Parbury.

I know you were adventuring in Upper India last year, for the papers were full of a rather fine thing you did—saved a lot of miserable lives—an ordinary, manly, commonplace, heroic, English sort of thing.

Gunning.

Oh, don’t mention that; one was carried away by impulse.

Parbury.