"Is he? I'm so sorry. He's awfully nice."
"Do you know him well?"
"Only a little. I met him in here. He asked me to have tea in his rooms in Beaumont Street, but of course I couldn't."
So she had ideas about propriety. There was a silence.
"Do you always live in Oxford?" asked Martin.
"We live out at Botley."
"Pretty deadly spot, isn't it?"
"Yes, it's something awful. I want to go to London only my family won't let me go into business. I'm awfully bored."
"So am I."
"Why are you bored?"