Then she said, very reasonably, 'I WON'T be Lady Gubbins--Sir Peter Gubbins!' There's an aristocratic name for you!--and, by a stroke of his pen, he straightway dis-Gubbinised himself, and emerged as Sir Ivor de Courcy Meadowcroft." "Really, Hilda, you know everything about everybody! And what do you suppose they're going to India for ?" "Now, you've asked me a hard one.

I haven't the faintest notion....
And yet...

let me think.

How is this for a conjecture?
Sir Ivor is interested in steel rails, I believe, and in railway plant generally.
I'm almost sure I've seen his name in connection with steel rails in reports of public meetings.

There's a new Government railway now being built on the Nepaul frontier--one of these strategic railways, I think they call them--it's mentioned in the papers we got at Aden.