‘I know she would like it.’
‘Of course you and I know that display of that sort is all bunkum—repellent even to our natures.’
‘Lord, yes!’
‘But to gratify her.’
‘I should be so conscious.’
Mr. Torrance is here quite as sincere as his son. ‘So should I.’
Roger considers it. ‘How far would you go?’
‘Oh, not far. Suppose I called you “Old Rogie”? There’s not much in that.’
‘It all depends on the way one says these things.’
‘I should be quite casual.’