With his book; and sometimes I can’t help annoying him. That’s nothing. We haven’t had a real cross word yet.

LADY WARGRAVE.

Does he write very much?

MARGERY.

Oh, morning, noon, and night. He’s always got a pen in his hand. I often say I wonder he doesn’t wear the ceiling out with looking at it.

[Laughs.

LADY WARGRAVE.

That isn’t writing, Margery.

MARGERY.

No, but it’s thinking—and he’s always thinking.