I think Miss Barfoot could advise us about it.

She has been abroad, I know, and she has so many friends.' 'I don't see any need to consult Miss Barfoot,' he replied stiffly.

'I am not such a helpless man, Monica.' Yet a feeling of inability to grapple with such an undertaking as this grew on him the more he thought of it.

Naturally, his mind busied itself with such vague knowledge as he had gathered of those places in the South of France, where rich English people go to escape their own climate: Nice, Cannes.

He could not imagine himself setting forth to these regions.