It's from Jane I've heard of what she calls her 'young things.' It seems so odd to think of Mitchy as a young thing.

He's as old as all time, and his wife, who the other day was about six, is now practically about forty.

And I also saw Petherton," Mrs.Brook added, "on his return." "His return from where ?" "Why he was with them at Corfu, Malta, Cyprus--I don't know where; yachting, spending Mitchy's money, 'larking,' he called it--I don't know what.

He was with them for weeks." "Till Jane, you mean, called him in ?" "I think it must have been that." "Well, that's better," said Van, "than if Mitchy had had to call him out." "Oh Mitchy--!" Mrs.Brook comprehensively sounded.
Her visitor quite assented.

"Isn't he amazing ?" "Unique." He had a short pause.