It wouldn't be nice, would it?
I thought if I came later, after dinner.

And perhaps you could talk to Mrs.Mumford, and--and prepare her.

I mean, perhaps you wouldn't mind saying you were sorry I had gone so suddenly.

And then perhaps Mrs.Mumford--she's so kind--would say that she was sorry too.

And then I might come into the garden and find you both sitting there--' Mumford, despite his most uneasy frame of mind, betrayed a passing amusement.