''
``On your last two birthdays, to be mathematically
exact.''
``Oh, well, that's not my fault. I'm not going to arrive
at nineteen as long as my mother remains at thirty-seven.
One must have some regard for appearances.''
``Perhaps your mother would age a little in the process of
settling down.''
``That's the last thing she'd think of. Feminine
reformations always start in on the failings of other
people. That's why I was so keen on the husband idea.''
``Did you go as far as to select the gentleman, or did you
merely throw out a general idea, and trust to the force of
suggestion?''
``If one wants a thing done in a hurry one must see to it
oneself. I found a military Johnny hanging round on a loose
end at the club, and took him home to lunch once or twice.
He'd spent most of his life on the Indian frontier, building
roads, and relieving famines and minimizing earthquakes, and
all that sort of thing that one does do on frontiers. He
could talk sense to a peevish cobra in fifteen native
languages, and probably knew what to do if you found a rogue
elephant on your croquet-lawn; but he was shy and diffident
with women.
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