Well, that's all right, for what's the most natural thing to do in these conditions but the most luxurious?
Won't Mitchy be wonderful for feeling and enjoying them?
I assure you I'm delighted he's coming." Then in a different tone a moment later, "Do you expect to be here long ?" he asked.
It took Nanda some time to say.

"As long as Mr.Longdon will keep me, I suppose--if that doesn't sound very horrible." "Oh he'll keep you! Only won't he himself," Vanderbank went on, "be coming up to town in the course of the autumn ?" "Well, in that case I'd perfectly stay here without him." "And leave him in London without YOU?
Ah that's not what we want: he wouldn't be at all the same thing without you.

Least of all for himself!" Vanderbank declared.
Nanda again thought.

"Yes, that's what makes him funny, I suppose--his curious infatuation.

I set him off--what do you call it ?--show him off: by his going round and round me as the acrobat on the horse in the circus goes round the clown.