“I can manage,” said the Captain.
“I didn't say 'go back,'” Dr. Lavendar said, mildly.
“Oh!” murmured a small voice from within the buggy.
“I expect you need me, don't you, Alfred?” said Dr. Lavendar.
“What?” said the Captain, frowning.
“Captain,” said Dr. Lavendar, simply, “if I can be of any service to you and Mrs. North, I shall be glad.”
Captain Price looked at him. “Now, look here, Lavendar, we're going to do it this time, if all the parsons in—well, in the church, try to stop us!”
“I'm not going to try to stop you.”
“But Gussie said you said—”
“Alfred, at your time of life, are you beginning to quote Gussie?”