26/43 You all wear too many ties and waistcoats; you are, and say, and do too many kinds of fashionable things. You play too much tennis, drink too many pegs, gamble too much, ride and drive too much. You all have too much and too many--if you understand that! You ask too much and you give too little; you say too much which means too little. Is there none among you who knows something that amounts to something, and how to say it and do it ?" "What the deuce are you driving at, Geraldine ?" he asked, bewildered. That's a new waistcoat, isn't it ?" "Well--I don't--know," he began, perplexed and suspicious, but she cut him short with a light little laugh and reached out to pat his hand. |