Are you quite ready, Mr.Chetwode ?" Arnold, who was finding the position more than ever embarrassing, turned to his employer.
"Can you spare me, sir ?" he asked.
Mr.Weatherley nodded.
"If my wife desires you to go, certainly," he replied.

"But Fenella," he added, "I am not very busy myself.

Is it absolutely necessary that you lunch with your brother?
Perhaps, even if it is, he can put up with my society for once." She threw a kiss to him from the door.
"Unreasonable person!" she exclaimed.

"To-day it is absolutely necessary that I lunch with Andrea.

You must go to your club if you are not busy, and play billiards or something.