"Since you are here, though I did n't ask you, you might as well make yourself useful.

Will you be so good as to ring the bell?
If Gordon expects that we are going to wait another quarter of an hour for him he exaggerates the patience of a long-suffering wife.

If you are very curious to know what he is about, he is writing letters, by way of a change.

He writes about eighty a day; his correspondents must be strong people! It 's a lucky thing for me that I am married to Gordon; if I were not he might write to me--to me, to whom it 's a misery to have to answer even an invitation to dinner! To begin with, I don't know how to spell.

If Captain Lovelock ever boasts that he has had letters from me, you may know it 's an invention.