26/46 I'm quite willing to pay my shilling and give no more trouble, but if Vivie is going there too we could all walk up together. After that I'm going to revisit an old acquaintance of mine and Vivie's, Praed the architect--lives somewhere in Chelsea if I remember right--" _Vivie_: "In Hans Place. I don't particularly want to go to the Zoo. I think I should like to try a restful visit to the Royal Botanic. I'm so fond of their collection of weird succulent plants--things that look like stones and suddenly produce superb flowers." _Mrs.Rossiter_: "We belong to the Botanic as well as to the Zoo. |