Of course, now we've cleared out the vermin----" "Oh, never mind the pheasants!" his wife broke in.

"You would talk about such things all day.

The question is----" "It strikes me it's when are we going to have the house to ourselves?
Though I don't interfere much, I've lately felt that I'm qualifying for a hotel-keeper." "You have been unusually patient, and I'm getting rather tired of entertaining people, but Margaret Keith says she'd like to come down.
You don't mind her ?" "Not a bit, if she doesn't insist on bringing a menagerie.

It was cats last time, but I hear she's gone in for wild animals now.

If she turns up with her collection, we'll probably lose Pattinson; he had all he could stand on the last occasion.