Gordon tells me every day I must decide, and then I ask Captain Lovelock what he thinks; because, you see, he always thinks a great deal.

Captain Lovelock says he does n't care a fig--that he will go wherever I go.

So you see that does n't carry us very far.
I want to settle on some place where Captain Lovelock won't go, but he won't help me at all.

I think it will look better for him not to follow us; don't you think it will look better, Mrs.Vivian?
Not that I care in the least where we go--or whether Captain Lovelock follows us, either.
I don't take any interest in anything, Mrs.Vivian; don't you think that is very sad?
Gordon may go anywhere he likes--to St.Petersburg, or to Bombay." "You might go to a worse place than Bombay," said Captain Lovelock, speaking with the authority of an Anglo-Indian rich in reminiscences.
Blanche gave him a little stare.
"Ah well, that 's knocked on the head! From the way you speak of it, I think you would come after us; and the more I think of that, the more I see it would n't do.

But we have got to go to some southern place, because I am very unwell.