Little Warrior by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
page 29 of 511 (05%)
page 29 of 511 (05%)
|
"Restaurant?" "Skating-rink," said Derek impatiently. "Just after you left for Mentone. Freddie Rooke introduced me." "Oh, your intellectual friend Mr Rooke knows her?" "They were children together. Her people lived next to the Rookes in Worcestershire." "I thought you said she was an American." "I said her father was. He settled in England. Jill hasn't been in America since she was eight or nine." "The fact," said Lady Underhill, "that the girl is a friend of Mr Rooke is no great recommendation." Derek kicked angrily at a box of matches which someone had thrown down on the platform. "I wonder if you could possibly get it into your head, mother, that I want to marry Jill, not engage her as an under-housemaid. I don't consider that she requires recommendations, as you call them. However, don't you think the most sensible thing is for you to wait till you meet her at dinner tonight, and then you can form your own opinion? I'm beginning to get a little bored with this futile discussion." |
|