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Whenever I want you to take me anywhere in your car I am always told that there is something wrong with it, or else that the chauffeur has got neuralgia and you don't like to ask him to go out." "He suffers quite a lot from neuralgia," said Mrs. Attray hastily. "Anyhow," she continued, "you can understand that I don't want to offend the Norridrums.
Of course I've done my best to stop it; I've asked the Norridrums not to let him play cards when he's over there, but you might as well ask the Atlantic Ocean to keep quiet for a crossing as expect them to bother about a mother's natural anxieties." "Why do you let him go there?" asked Eleanor Saxelby. "My dear," said Mrs. Attray, "I don't want to offend them.
Whether she refused him or whether, as was more generally supposed, he did not get a chance of saying three consecutive words, has never been exactly ascertained. Anyhow, she is still the jolly Coulterneb girl. The buzzards successfully reared two young ones, which were shot by a local hairdresser. "Ronnie is a great trial to me," said Mrs. Attray plaintively.
"He was there yesterday afternoon and stayed to dinner," said Mrs. Attray. "I don't quite know when he came home, but I fancy it was late." "Then depend on it he was gambling," said Eleanor, with the assured air of one who has few ideas and makes the most of them. "Late hours in the country always mean gambling." "He can't gamble if he has no money and no chance of getting any," argued Mrs.
"Well, ma'am, the new cook hadn't hardly time to see to things properly, coming in so sudden " commenced Pellin by way of explanation. "The new cook!" screamed Mrs. Attray. "Colonel Norridrum's cook, ma'am," said Pellin. "What on earth do you mean? What is Colonel Norridrum's cook doing in my kitchen and where is my cook?"
Attray; "even if one plays for small stakes one must have a decent prospect of paying one's losses." "He may have sold some of the Amherst pheasant chicks," suggested Eleanor; "they would fetch about ten or twelve shillings each, I daresay." "Ronnie wouldn't do such a thing," said Mrs. Attray; "and anyhow I went and counted them this morning and they're all there.
Attray, "whatever their own home life may be, as landlords and neighbours they are considerate and obliging, so I don't want to quarrel with them. Besides, if Ronnie didn't play cards there he'd be playing somewhere else." "Not if you were firm with him," said Eleanor "I believe in being firm." "Firm? I am firm," exclaimed Mrs. Attray; "I am more than firm I am farseeing.
"Is that clock right?" asked Eleanor, whose eyes had been straying restlessly towards the mantel-piece for some little time; "lunch is usually so punctual in your establishment." "Three minutes past the half-hour," exclaimed Mrs. Attray; "cook must be preparing something unusually sumptuous in your honour. I am not in the secret; I've been out all the morning, you know."
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