Fancy your going down to the shades of Allington to enjoy the uninterrupted pleasures of friendship for six weeks." "Friendship and the partridges." "There was nothing else, then ?" "Indeed there was.

There was a widow with two very nice daughters, living, not exactly in the same house, but on the same grounds." "Oh, indeed.

That makes such a difference; doesn't it?
You are not a man to bear much privation on the score of partridges, nor a great deal, I imagine, for friendship.

But when you talk of pretty girls--" "It makes a difference, doesn't it ?" "A very great difference.

I think I have heard of that Mrs Dale before.