But what _extraordinary_ people the dear Professor _does_ pick up! Have _they_ got ductless glands, she wonders?
Rossiter who has been fidgeting through this dialogue considers that lunch is ready, so they proceed to the small dining-room, "the breakfast-room." Mrs.Rossiter was always very proud of having a _small_ drawing-room (otherwise, "me boudwor") and a _small_ dining-room.

It prepared the way for greater magnificence at big parties and also enabled one to be cosier with a few friends.
At luncheon: _Mrs.Rossiter_ to _Frank Gardner_, archly: "I suppose you've come home to be married ?" _Frank_: "Oh no! I'm not a bigamist, I've got a wife already and four children, and jolly glad I shall be to get back to 'em.

I can't stand much of the English climate, after getting so used to South African sunshine.No.I came on a business trip to England, leaving my old dear out at the farm near Salisbury, with the kids--we've got a nice English governess who helps her to look after 'em.

A year or two hence I hope to bring 'em over to see the old country and we may have to put the eldest to school: children run wild so in South Africa.

As to Miss Warren, she's an old friend of mine and a very dear one.