"Oh, no!"
"This isn't a bad place for experiments, I will say. You see, you can get the sea, and quite decent scenery, and any amount of view and stuff. I say, what ages they are finding us," he broke off suddenly.
Alex felt deeply mortified. Evidently Noel was bored, after all. But in another minute he began to talk again.
"I shouldn't be surprised if one of these days I tried my hand at doing sort of book stuff. You know, photographs for illustrations. I believe it's going to pay no end."
"What sort of things?"
"Oh, scenery, you know, and perhaps houses and things. Sure I'm not boring you?"
"No, indeed, I'm very interested."
"It is rather interesting," Noel agreed simply.
"Another thing I'm keen on is swimming. Rather different, you'll say; but then one can't do one thing all the time, and, of course, the swimming is first class at school. I went in for some competition and stuff last term; high diving, you know."
"Oh, did you win?"