“Young woman, go West! Return to your bracing home, and leave this enervating London! You …”
Nelly got up abruptly. She could endure no more.
“I believe I’ll have to be going now,” she said. “Bill misses me if I’m away long. Good-bye. Thank you ever so much for what you did.”
“It was awfully kind of you to come round,” said Jill.
“Good-bye, Major Selby.”
“Good-bye.”
“Good-bye, Mr Rooke.”
Freddie awoke from another reverie.
“Eh? Oh, I say, half a jiffy. I think I may as well be toddling along myself. About time I was getting back to dress for dinner and all that. See you home, may I, and then I’ll get a taxi at Victoria. Toodle-oo, everybody.”