"I had always had the idea that it was up to the old people to put the world to rights--that all I had to do was to look after myself.

It came to me suddenly while you were talking to me--I mean while I was reading you: that if you were worrying yourself about it, I'd got to come in, too--that it would be mean of me not to.

It wasn't like being preached to.

It was somebody calling for help." Instinctively she held out her hand and he grasped it.
Flossie came up at the same instant.

She wanted to introduce him to Miss Lavery, who had just arrived.
"Hullo!" she said.