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Both Miss Grammont and Miss Seyffert displayed an intelligent interest in their food. After lunch they had all gone out to the stones and the wall. Half a dozen sunburnt children were putting one of the partially overturned megaliths to a happy use by clambering to the top of it and sliding on their little behinds down its smooth and sloping side amidst much mirthful squealing.
The Old George at Salisbury is really old; it shows it, and Miss Seyffert laced the entire evening with her recognition of the fact. "Just look at that old beam!" she would cry suddenly. "To think it was exactly where it is before there was a Cabot in America!" Miss Grammont let her companion pull the talk about as she chose.
Miss Seyffert is a fairly crude mixture of frankness, insincerity and self-explanatory egotism, and I have been able to disregard a considerable amount of the conversation she has addressed to me. Now I guess this Miss Grammont has had no mother since she was quite little." "Your guesses, doctor, are apt to be pretty good," said Sir Richmond. "You know that?" "She has told me as much." "H'm.
"But if you consider it scandalous and really, Martineau, really! as one man to another, it does seem to me to be a bit pernickety of you, a broad and original thinker as you are " "Thought is one matter. Rash, inconsiderate action quite another. And above all, if I spend another day in or near the company of Miss Belinda Seyffert I shall I shall be extremely rude to her."
"You said ?" asked Miss Seyffert. "That I have some writing to do before the post goes," said the doctor brightly. "Oh! come and see the cathedral!" cried Sir Richmond with ill-concealed dismay. He was, if one may put it in such a fashion, not looking at Miss Seyffert in the directest fashion when he said this. "I'm afraid," said the doctor mulishly. "Impossible." Miss Grammont stood up.
"God has put me into this Higher Plane business like some poor little kid who has to wear irons on its legs." "I WANT her.... Do you hear, Martin? I want her." As if by a lightning flash he saw his car with himself and Miss Grammont Miss Seyffert had probably fallen out traversing Europe and Asia in headlong flight. To a sunlit beach in the South Seas....
"It may help you to see this affair from a slightly different angle if I tell you that twice today Miss Seyffert has asked me if you were a married man." "And of course you told her I was." "On the second occasion." Sir Richmond smiled again. "Frankly," said the doctor, "this adventure is altogether uncongenial to me. It is the sort of thing that has never happened in my life.
"For a whole day yet, all round the clock twice, you and I have one another." Miss Seyffert began speaking as soon as she was well within earshot. "I don't know the name of a single one of these flowers," she cried, "except the bluebells. Look at this great handful I've gotten! Springtime in Italy doesn't compare with it, not for a moment." Section 5
We may be coming to such a stage, when population, as much as fuel, will be under a world control. If one thing, why not the other? I admit that the movement of thought is away from haphazard towards control " "I'm for control all the time," Miss Seyffert injected, following up her previous success.
Apropos of beggars, Miss Grammont from the depths of her chair threw out the statement that Italy was frightfully overpopulated. "In some parts of Italy it is like mites on a cheese. Nobody seems to be living. Everyone is too busy keeping alive." "Poor old women carrying loads big enough for mules," said Miss Seyffert. "Little children working like slaves," said Miss Grammont.
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