"You see" (Winny explained), "we're so awfully fond of her."
Brodrick knew that he ought to tell the young rascals that their being fond of her didn't make it any more their business. But he couldn't.
"What did you say to your Uncle Henry?"
He really wanted to know.
"Oh, we said it was all humbug about Jinny being neurotic. He's neurotic himself and so he thinks everybody else is. He's got it regularly on the brain."
(If, Brodrick thought, Henry could have heard him!)
"You can't think," said Winny, "how he bores us with it."
"I said he couldn't wonder if she was neurotic, when you think what she's got to stand. The boresomeness——" He left the idea to its own immensity.
"Of what?" said Brodrick.
"Well, for one thing, you know, of living everlastingly with Gertrude."