Marking Time
“‘But if you want to be on your own—’ she said.
‘It’s not that,’ Teddy said quickly: it was against family law deliberately to exclude anyone from an outing. ‘It’s just that I can’t see you bicycling nearly forty miles.’ ‘Camber’s not twenty miles!’ ‘Jolly nearly. And we’ve got three-speed bikes.’ ‘OK. I can see you don’t want me.’ ‘They don’t want me either,’ Neville said, ‘which is much more serious.’ ‘I tell you what,’ he said to Polly when the boys had made an uneasy escape. ‘When they’r...e old and wrinkly and beg me to take them out in my racing car, I simply shan’t. Or my aeroplane, which I’ll probably have for long journeys. I shall just tell them they’re too old for anything nice – silly old farts.’ ‘I don’t think you should call them that.’ ‘It’s what they are or jolly soon will be. Stupid chaps are farts and stupid girls are tarts. A boy at school told me. Farts and tarts, you see?’ He watched her, hoping she would be shocked.MoreLess
‘It’s not that,’ Teddy said quickly: it was against family law deliberately to exclude anyone from an outing. ‘It’s just that I can’t see you bicycling nearly forty miles.’ ‘Camber’s not twenty miles!’ ‘Jolly nearly. And we’ve got three-speed bikes.’ ‘OK. I can see you don’t want me.’ ‘They don’t want me either,’ Neville said, ‘which is much more serious.’ ‘I tell you what,’ he said to Polly when the boys had made an uneasy escape. ‘When they’r...e old and wrinkly and beg me to take them out in my racing car, I simply shan’t. Or my aeroplane, which I’ll probably have for long journeys. I shall just tell them they’re too old for anything nice – silly old farts.’ ‘I don’t think you should call them that.’ ‘It’s what they are or jolly soon will be. Stupid chaps are farts and stupid girls are tarts. A boy at school told me. Farts and tarts, you see?’ He watched her, hoping she would be shocked.MoreLess
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