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I had plenty to do in conjunction largely with Debenham, and accordingly he, I, and Gran set out on September 23 with sledge, tent, and a week's food supply to complete and extend our surveys, and in Debenham's case to "geologise." We had an interesting but somewhat chilly time. Theodolite and plane table work are not suited to very cold climates.
"I've got a taxi outside," said Lucas. "A taxi?" she repeated in a disappointed tone. And then, as an afterthought: "Well, I have to call at Debenham's." The fact was that Laurencine wanted to be seen walking with her military officer in some well-frequented thoroughfare. They lived at Hampstead. Lois rang the bell. "Ask nurse to bring the children down, please at once," she told the parlourmaid.
I have to go up to try a dress on." Lord Buntingford paused a moment, looking apparently at the cigarette with which his fingers were playing. "You proposed, I imagine, that Mrs. Friend should go with you?" "Oh, yes, to my dressmaker's. Then I would arrange for her to go somewhere to lunch Debenham's, perhaps." "And it was your idea then to go alone to meet Lord Donald?" He looked up.
Then Ernest sent his small stock of goods to Debenham's, gave up the house he had taken two and a half years previously, and returned to civilisation. I had expected that he would now rapidly recover, and was disappointed to see him get as I thought decidedly worse.
As he worked quietly at these till he heard the clock strike ten and it was time to go to bed, he felt that he was now not only happy but supremely happy. Next day Ellen took him to Debenham's auction rooms, and they surveyed the lots of clothes which were hung up all round the auction room to be viewed.
Taylor gave a most interesting lecture on the physiographic features of the region traversed by his party in the autumn. His mind is very luminous and clear and he treated the subject with a breadth of view which was delightful. The illustrative slides were made from Debenham's photographs, and many of them were quite beautiful.
"Fancy some imp of fifteen or sixteen assailing the author of his being, a court-worn barrister or 'rattled' stockbroker, at his evening meal: 'Father, I think Lord Bryce's bill for the reform of the House of Lords radically unsound, or suddenly asking his mother, who, good, easy woman, is revolving in her mind the merits of a coat and skirt she has seen that afternoon at Debenham's: 'Mother, what is your opinion of the Trading with the Enemy Bill?" Saturday Review.
Taylor's intellect is omnivorous and versatile his mind is unceasingly active, his grasp wide. Whatever he writes will be of interest his pen flows well. Debenham's is clearer. Here we have a well-trained, sturdy worker, with a quiet meaning that carries conviction; he realises the conceptions of thoroughness and conscientiousness.
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