"He has a busy youth ahead of him, I see. Have you thought of anything else?"
"Not at present. Don't you think, though, that this little talk of ours has been rather instructive, Gerald? Shall we open a correspondence in The Literary Supplement on 'The Boy: What Will He Become'?"
"Not quite the sort of thing for their readers, I should say."
"But surely some of them must be quite human. It isn't as if I'd said Notes and Queries. One can't imagine the readers of that ever—"
"Listen!" said Gerald. "I think I hear—"
But Margaret had vanished. Nat's already pessimistic views on his future were being published for the benefit of the Man in the Street.
Part II.—The Disposal, 1945.
The President and Committee of the British Lepidopterists' Association request the pleasure of your company on January the 15th, at 5 p.m., when Mr. Nathaniel Prendergast will give an illustrated address on The Haunts and Habits of the minor Copperwing, together with a few Notes on Gnats.
"Linen collars at 3s. 6d. each sounds incredible."—Daily News.