13/23 Why the--Devil, I was going to say, if it had been respectful to their memory--couldn't they leave us alone ?' 'Tut, tut, dear boy,' Mr.Jasper remonstrates, in a tone of gentle deprecation. _Your_ life is not laid down to scale, and lined and dotted out for you, like a surveyor's plan. _You_ have no uncomfortable suspicion that you are forced upon anybody, nor has anybody an uncomfortable suspicion that she is forced upon you, or that you are forced upon her. Life, for _you_, is a plum with the natural bloom on; it hasn't been over-carefully wiped off for _you_--' 'Don't stop, dear fellow. |