"I am told that your father has been improving the place a great deal in that kind of way, so as to make it up to date and scientific and profitable, and all the rest of it.

Also if it hasn't, there would have been no young jackdaws, since they must have flown quite six weeks ago." "Then why couldn't you say that at once, instead of making us waste all this time ?" asked Isobel with indignation.
"I don't know," replied Godfrey in a somewhat vacuous fashion.

"It was all the same to me if we were hunting for young jackdaws or the man in the moon, as long as we were together." "Godfrey, it is evident that you have been overworking and are growing foolish.

I make excuses for you, since anybody who passed first out of Sandhurst must have overworked, but it does not alter the fact.

Now I must go home and see about that house, for as yet I have arranged nothing at all, and the place is in an awful state.