and May answered serenely: \"No; but you see it doesn't matter, because when there's nothing particular to do he reads a book.\"
\"Ah, yes—like his father!\" Mrs. Welland agreed, as if allowing for an inherited oddity; and after that the question of Newland's unemployment was tacitly dropped.
Nevertheless, as the day for the Sillerton reception approached, May began to show a natural solicitude for his welfare, and to suggest a tennis match at the Chiverses',
and May answered serenely: \"No; but you see it doesn't matter, because when there's nothing particular to do he reads a book.\"
\"Ah, yes—like his father!\" Mrs. Welland agreed, as if allowing for an inherited oddity; and after that the question of Newland's unemployment was tacitly dropped.
Nevertheless, as the day for the Sillerton reception approached, May began to show a natural solicitude for his welfare, and to suggest a tennis match at the Chiverses',
