"Oh a part of the way. But we wouldn't, in England, have missed you."
"And now we _haven't_!" the young woman soothingly added.
Gedge still could only gape at the candour of the tribute. But he tried to
meet them--it was what was least poor for him--in their own key. "Well, how
do you like it?"
Mrs. Hayes, he thought--if their answer were important--laughed a little
nervously. "Oh you see."
Once more he looked from one to the other. "It's too beastly easy, you
know."
Her husband raised his eyebrows. "You conceal your art. The emotion--yes;
that must be easy; the general tone must flow. But about your facts--you've
so many: how do you get _them_ through?"