28/33 She embraced him with enthusiasm, dropping the heaviest of the parcels, which seemed to contain bricks, upon his toe, and in a flood of language told him of the peculiar awfulness of the row between his father and herself which had ensued upon his departure. And so here I am, beginning life again, like you, and feeling thirty years younger for it. Now, tell me what you are going to do ?" Then they went and had tea in the refreshment room, leaving the jackdaw and the other impediments in charge of a porter, and he told her. "I always hated the idea of seeing you with a black coat on your back. The Queen's uniform looks much better, and I want you to be a man. |