With a reckless turn of her head, she said, 'Why didn't we take him with us ?' 'Did we want him ?' I asked.
'I think I always want him.' 'Ah!' said I, and would have pondered this statement at some length in silence, but that she plainly did not wish me to do so.
'We might perfectly well have sent his pony home with one of our own servants--he would have been delighted to walk down.' 'He wasn't in proper kit,' I remonstrated.
'Oh, I wish you would speak to him about that.

Make him get some tennis-flannels and riding-things.' 'Do you propose to get him asked to places ?' I inquired.
She gave me a charmingly unguarded smile.

'I propose to induce you to do so.

I have done what I could.

He has dined with us several times, and met a few people who would, I thought, be kind to him.' 'Oh, well,' I said, 'I have had him at the Club too, with old Lamb and Colonel Hamilton.