"Not before winter, sir, or I don't know how soon in winter."
"Is there nothing will bring you back to town before winter?"
"I don't know of anything."
"Would you not like to see a Coronation?"
"Yes, sir. I hope I should come to see that."
"I hear it's very popular my having put it off.... Won't it be a much finer sight when there is a Queen?"
"To be sure, sir."
"I have had a great many applications from abroad, but I don't like them. I have had none at home: I should like that better.... What do you think of your friend? You know who I mean; don't you think her fittest?"
"Think, sir?"
"I think none so fit."[120]