18/36 What do you think of Mrs Green wanting to charge me for an extra week, because she says I didn't give her notice till Tuesday morning? I shall never come up to London again, my dear." "Oh, aunt, don't say that!" "But I do say it, my dear. What should an old woman like me do, trailing up to town every year, merely because it's what people choose to call the season." "To see your friends, of course. Age doesn't matter when a person's health is so good as yours." "If you knew what I suffer from lumbago,--though I must say coming to London always does cure that for the time. |