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"And that money . I got you that money, Poff! It was my money." Benham stared at her perplexed. "What am I to do?" he asked. "Cut her off, you silly boy! Tie her up! Pay her through a solicitor. Say that if she sees him ONCE again " He reflected. "No," he said at last. "Poff!" she cried, "every time I see you, you are more and more like your father. You're going off just as he did.
They aren't different. Why should they be? I suppose I ought to be shocked, Poff. But I'm not. She seems to be very fond of you." "She's she's very good in her way. She's had a difficult life...." "You can't leave a man about for a moment," Lady Marayne reflected. "Poff, I wish you'd fetch me a glass of water." When he returned she was looking very fixedly into the fire.
BILLY! Like a goat or something. People called William don't get their Christian name insisted upon unless they are vulnerable somewhere. Any form of William stamps a weakness, Willie, Willy, Will, Billy, Bill; it's a fearful handle for one's friends. At any rate Poff had escaped that. But this Prothero! "But who IS this Billy Prothero?" she asked one evening in the walled garden.
His mother the other day told me he was. And Sir Freddy Quenton's boy. And there are both the young Baptons at Cambridge." He knew one of the Baptons. "Poff," she said suddenly, "has it ever occurred to you what you are going to do afterwards. Do you know you are going to be quite well off?" Benham looked up with a faint embarrassment. "My father said something. He was rather vague.
Didn't I warn you?" "But now what am I to do?" "There you are! That's just a man's way. You get yourself into this trouble, you follow your passions and your fancies and fads and then you turn to me! How can I help you now, Poff? If you'd listened to me before!" Her blue eyes were demonstratively round. "Yes, but " "I warned you," she interrupted. "I warned you. I've done all I could for you.
When it came to telling him, she failed from her fierceness. "Poff, my little son," she said, "I'm so sorry I hardly know how to tell you. Poff, I'm sorry. I have to tell you and it's utterly beastly." "But what?" he asked. "These people are dreadful people." "But how?" "You've heard of the great Kent and Eastern Bank smash and the Marlborough Building Society frauds eight or nine years ago?"
I had to stuff them up you had a sprained knee at Chexington, and for all I knew any of them might have been seeing you that morning. Besides what has a boy like you to worry about? It's all nonsense, Poff." She awaited his explanations. Benham looked for a moment like his father. "I'm not getting on, mother," he said. "I'm scattering myself. I'm getting no grip.
A boy of nearly nineteen ought to have at least the beginnings of SAVOIR FAIRE. Was he in the right set? Was he indeed in the right college? Trinity, by his account, seemed a huge featureless place and might he not conceivably be LOST in it? In those big crowds one had to insist upon oneself. Poff never insisted upon himself except quite at the wrong moment. And there was this Billy Prothero.
"But Mother, this is rather astounding.... Does this mean there are estates somewhere, responsibilities?" "It is just money. Investments." "You know, I've imagined . I've thought always I should have to DO something." "You MUST do something, Poff. But it needn't be for a living. The world is yours without that. And so you see you've got to make plans.
"Put it down," she said, "anywhere. Poff! is this Mrs. Helter-Skelter a discreet sort of woman? Do you like her?" She asked a few additional particulars and Benham made his grudging admission of facts. "What I still don't understand, Poff, is why you have been away." "I went away," said Benham, "because I want to clear things up." "But why? Is there some one else?" "No." "You went alone?
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