"What?" said Barbara, who was biting her nails, and drumming the table.
"I say, why not send Jim over to Brighton to see if he can do anything with the old lady. He's very near getting his degree, you know. He's only been plucked twice--so was I--but he's had the advantages of Oxford and a university education. He knows some of the best chaps there. He pulls stroke in the Boniface boat. He's a handsome feller. D---- it, ma'am, let's put him on the old woman, hey, and tell him to thrash Pitt if he says anything. Ha, ha, ha!

"What?"
"I say, why not send Jim over to Brighton to see if he can do anything with the old lady? He's very near getting his degree, you know. He's been failed twice - so was I - but he's had an Oxford education. He's a handsome feller. Let's put him on the old woman, hey."
