Part 37 (2/2)

PETER: ”Ah! Ah! Nous y sommes!How can you be so childish!+

What did Mrs Bo say to you?”

MARGOT: ”Oh, spareinto your friends' affairs!”

PETER (flushed with te to control himself): ”What does it matter what an old wo-field?”

MARGOT: ”You told ”

PETER: ”What an awful lie! You said she was pretty and I disagreed with you” Silence ”What did she say to you? I tell you she is jealous of you in the hunting-field!”

MARGOT: ”No, she's not; she's jealous of ”

PETER (startled at first and then bursting out laughing): ”There's nothing very original about that!”

MARGOT (indignantly): ”Do you mean to say that it's a platitude?

And that I DON'T know right fro theetting up): ”Well, after that, nothing will induce ain! No regi, how can you be so foolish!+ Who would ever think it wrong to go and see a poor devil ill in bed! You had to ride my horse back to its stable and it was your duty to come and ask after ood horses I've put you on!”

MARGOT: ”Evidently in this country I aht to have warned me you were in love with her You said I was not the woht I ell, I can say the sahter disappeared

”Do youto Mrs Bo?”

MARGOT: ”Yes”

PETER: ”In that case I will go and see her and ask her which of the two of you is lying! If it's you, you needn't bother yourself to leave this country, for I shall sell my horses I wish to God I had never met you!”

I felt very uncomfortable and unhappy, as in my heart I knew that Mrs Bo had never said Peter was in love with her; she had not alluded to his feelings for her at all I got up to stop hi the room and put myself in front of the door

MARGOT: ”Really, why ; and you know quite well you are ill and ought to go to bed Is there any object in going round the country discussing o aill you? I'et off”

I did notround the country talking aboutto mollify hi to listen; there is nothing I enjoy soabout myself”

It was too late All he said tothat door? You tire o, but proo to Mrs Bo to-day; or, if you DO, tellto say to her first”

PETER: ”You've never told me yet what she said to you, except that I was in love with her, so why should I tell you what I propose saying to her! For once you cannot have it all your oay You are SO spoilt since you've been down here that”