“If you ask him to dinner I shall go out.”
“I can’t understand why you dislike him so much.”
“Well, I just do.”
“He seems to admire you tremendously.”
“Does he?”
“He keeps talking about you—asking what you were like as a child and whether you ever did you hair differently and things of that kind.”
“Oh!”
“I rather wish you didn’t object to him so much. I should like to see something of him out of office hours. I find him a very pleasant fellow myself, and extremely useful in the office. He has taken that Aunt Ysobel page off my hands. You remember how I used to hate having to write that?”
“Is that all he does?”
Mr. Wrenn chuckled.