Peter felt depressed and angry.

He told himself he was being let in for something he did not want, and he had not much to say.

To make conversation, he asked about South Africa.
It appeared the girls came from Natal.

Miss Raynard was enthusiastic, and he gathered they had been trained together in Pietermaritzburg, but lived somewhere on the coast, where there was tennis all the year and moonlight bathing picnics in the season, and excellent river boating.

He could not catch the name, but it was not too far from Durban.