I've been ferociously busy." "He knows that--he likes it," Nanda returned.

"He delights in your work.
And I've done what I can for him." "Ah," said her companion, "you've evidently brought him round.

I mean to this lady." "To Tishy?
Oh of course I can't leave her--with nobody." "No"-- Vanderbank became jocose again--"that's a London necessity.

You can't leave anybody with nobody--exposed to everybody." Mild as it was, however, Nanda missed the pleasantry.

"Mr.Grendon's not here." "Where is he then ?" "Yachting--but she doesn't know." "Then she and you are just doing this together ?" "Well," said Nanda, "she's dreadfully frightened." "Oh she mustn't allow herself," he returned, "to be too much carried away by it.