“No, because they were girls,” he replied. “And anyhow, I don’t know anything about kids. I don’t mind them but I keep out of the way.”
“They were much fonder of you than Ivor is of his father.”
“Don’t let’s be boastful. And you had much better leave those two to manage their own affairs.”
Teresa came back at the end of the week and saw David once before he went away. The Prices were to move into Aldwych next month and Lady Varens was going abroad when David went to the Argentine to learn farming.
He met Teresa when he was leaving the University one evening and walked back with her. When they reached the house she invited him in. “I know Mother is out,” she said, “and Father probably is, too, but I want you to come in. I have one more thing to say.”
“What is it?” he asked when they were in the drawing-room.
“Do you think you will certainly come back when the Prices’ three years are up?”
“I shall see what sort of a show they run there. If it is all right I might let them have it and I would buy some land somewhere else.”
“Where for instance?”
“Anywhere where they talk English.”