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.