He too leaned over, looking at the ducks.

There was a silence.

Then Hilary said: "If Bianca won't get that child into some fresh place, I shall." Stephen looked at his brother in surprise, amounting almost to dismay; he had spoken with such unwonted resolution.
"My dear old chap," he said, "I wouldn't go to B.Women are so funny." Hilary smiled.

Stephen took this for a sign of restored impersonality.
"I'll tell you exactly how the thing appeals to me.

It'll be much better for you to chuck it altogether.