Of course, I know perfectly well that neither of you want me, when you haven't seen each other for so long and must have heaps and heaps to say to one another, but I thought I would risk the odium of being the third person on an occasion when two are company and three are a nuisance.

Wasn't it brave of me ?" She spoke in full knowledge of the fact that the luncheon party would not in any case have been restricted to Yeovil and his wife, having seen Ronnie arrive in the hall as she was being shown upstairs.
"Ronnie Storre is coming, I believe," said Cicely, "so you're not breaking into a tete-a-tete." "Ronnie, oh I don't count him," said Joan gaily; "he's just a boy who looks nice and eats asparagus.

I hear he's getting to play the piano really well.

Such a pity.

He will grow fat; musicians always do, and it will ruin him.