Rimbolt's a bookworm, and doesn't see what goes on under his nose, and her aunt, as she says, is an animated extinguisher.

It always puzzled me how Rimbolt came to marry Charlotte Halgrove." "Halgrove?
Was she the sister of your old college friend ?" "Yes.

Rimbolt, Halgrove, and I were inseparable when we were at Oxford.
Did I ever tell you of our walking tour in the Lakes?
We ruled a bee- line across the map with a ruler and walked along it, neck or nothing.
Of course you know about it.

We've sobered down since then.

Rimbolt married Halgrove's sister, and I married Rimbolt's.