"I have forgotten what sports mean.
I may take a gun out sometimes.

There is a little shooting that goes with the Manor, but very few birds, I believe.

The last ten years seem to have driven all those things out of one's mind." "Don't you think that you are inclined to take life a little too earnestly ?" she asked.

"One should have amusements." "I may feel the necessity," he replied, "but it is not easy to take up one's earlier pleasures at my time of life." "Don't think me inquisitive," she went on, "but, as I told you, I have looked you up in one of those wonderful books which tell us everything about everybody.

You were a Double Blue at Oxford." "Racquets and cricket," he assented.