The Land of Promise: A Comedy in Four Acts

by W. Somerset Maugham

But I’m going in for farming.

Norah.

Are you? What on earth for?

Hornby.

I’ve jolly well got to do something, and I think farming’s about the best thing I can do. One gets a lot of shooting and riding, you know. And then there are tennis parties and dances. And you make a pot of money, there’s no doubt about that.

Norah.

I thought you were in some motor business in London.

Hornby.

Well, I was in a way. But ... I thought you’d have heard about it. Mother’s been telling everybody. Governor won’t speak to me. Altogether things are rotten. I want to get out of this beastly country as quick as I can.

Norah.