“Indeed,” he repeated solemnly, with a new intonation, as though this were the loveliest of words, after which he made a curious shuffling movement towards me and took me by the arm. I wondered whether I might be about to fall in love and felt very foolish that I could now think of absolutely nothing to say to this young man. But he relieved me of further agitation by saying, “Pray, do me the favour of walking with me to the end of the conservatory, where my mother’s orchids are in bloom and where we might be a little less crowded by the older people.”
I looked round but could not see any of these older people and at the same time I realised that this must be young Richards who was up at Cambridge, studying Medicine. It suddenly struck me that this would be a good opportunity of telling s
