He looked at her under his brows. “Like what?”.
“Oh, don’t be a fool!” she said impatiently. “You know what I mean! He wasn’t as bad as this when I was last here. Is he breaking up?”
He shrugged. “Lifton thinks so.”
“I never had the least opinion of that old idiot. What do you think?”
“I’m not a doctor: I don’t know. I should say he’d last a good few years yet.”
“Well, I think he’s going mad!” Charmian said roundly.
“He’s not mad.”
“He may not be technically mad, but he seems to me to be perfectly irresponsible. Do you know that he told Aubrey today that he was to come home and study forestry, or some such nonsense? Aubrey! And why has he suddenly removed Clay from college?”
“Thought he was wasting his time there. So he was. Clay’s a waster.”
“He won’t cure him of that by encouraging him to chop and change about. What was the sense of sending him to Cambridge at all if he meant to take him away before he got a degree?”