“I was thinking, if you didn’t mind, that we ought to spend this evening in a business talk; there will be so much to settle.”
“I think so too. Tell me, in the first place, how did you get on with Tibby?”
“With your brother?”
“Yes, during cigarettes.”
“Oh, very well.”
“I am so glad,” she answered, a little surprised. “What did you talk about? Me, presumably.”
“About Greece too.”
“Greece was a very good card, Henry. Tibby’s only a boy still, and one has to pick and choose subjects a little. Well done.”
“I was telling him I have shares in a currant-farm near Calamata.
“What a delightful thing to have shares in! Can’t we go there for our honeymoon?”