“If I didn’t it was because I knew I should be seeing you so soon.”
“Well, how did you like it? You don’t seem inclined to go into raptures over it, as you ought.”
“All the same, I thought it excellent.”
“What did you do with yourself in that deadly little Irish hamlet? Wasn’t it perfectly awful? Why didn’t you come away sooner?”
“I rather enjoyed it than otherwise.”
“Oh! you rather enjoyed it, did you?” pricking up her ears. “I thought you never could be bothered to enjoy anything.”
“I can’t say I put myself out much over this.”
“Are there any nice girls there?”
“Yes.”
“Many?”