He was engaged to my cousin Honoria at one time, and it was broken off because he was next door to insane. You should hear my Uncle Roderick talk about him.”
I wasn’t keen.
“Do you see much of him?”
“A goodish bit.”
“I saw in the paper the other day that he was fined for making a disgraceful disturbance in the street.”
“Yes, I saw that.”
She gazed at me in a fond, motherly way.
“He can’t be a good influence for you,” she said. “I do wish you would drop him. Will you?”
“Well—” I began. And at this point old Cuthbert the cat, having presumably found it a bit slow by himself in the bushes,