Cheerful Weather for the Wedding Page #7

Mum!

Why wasn't l put in the Chinese room?

That's where the action is!

For goodness...

l knew this would happen.

Don't pretend this has never happened

to you before, Bob!

Not as often as l would like.

- Well?

Poor Miss Spoon. Perhaps she is over-tired.

Do take a seat, Hettie.

You must be worn out.

L'm fine, Bob dear.

Dear!

Some young men never think

of anybody but themselves.

To me that seems so curious!

Have a chocolate, Robert.

Kitty? So very delicious.

Thank you.

Joseph, why don't you just help yourself?

You know, you young men nowadays

always seem to mope about the place.

Never seeming to care

to pull yourselves together,

stand up nice and square

and walk along properly.

Or to join in with other people's fun.

Don't you know what l mean?

And yet you're never lagging behind,

l notice,

when it comes to raising your voices

in criticism of other people.

- Now, you, Joseph...

- Mum...

You, Joseph, have had everything

you want from life.

The profession you wanted,

a first-rate education,

a most devoted mother, and yet here

you seem to be all up against everybody.

Nothing seems good enough for you.

Now l may be very dense, l freely confess,

but l utterly fail to understand it!

Of course, you may be very dense.

That might be the very reason.

You can't understand why no one arrives

when you think they should.

And then you can't understand

why the canon and Miss Spoon come

to be sharing a bedroom, can you?

You couldn't grasp how it was that

Millman could have been such an odd person

as to lay the luncheon in the dining room!

Ln fact, you don't really understand anyone

or anything around you, do you?

L'm sure l don't know

what on Earth you mean.

L ought not to tell you this,

l suppose, but l'm going to.

You don't know, do you, why your daughter

married with such indecent haste?

Of course in another month or two,

we would all know why.

Mind you, as to whom the father is,

well, there l am as ignorant as you are.

You're mad.

Lt was inevitable that you would be

the last person to know about it.

Stop it. Think about what you're saying.

Yes, it may be mine.

They're having a sweepstake in the kitchen.

Lt's not too late to place a bet.

- Joseph!

- My money's on Aunt Bella's chauffeur.

Three-to-one on Owen

and 1 00-to-1 on the tortoise!

Of course, Dolly must have despaired

at even attempting to explain it to you.

- Explain what?

- That this isn't the first time either!

Why else do you think

Dolly Thatcham is always running away?

L have no idea what on Earth

you are talking about!

What l am talking about

is perfectly simple.

Dolly has broken my heart, and l let her.

Thank you all for a most delightful day.

Good God!

Heavens! Are you all right?

Well, l heard all that well enough.

Why did he say those things?

You don't think...

Of course not, Mama.

Don't pay any attention. He's drunk.

That's what's the matter with him.

Let's get you tidied up and away

from all these grown-ups.

- Sorry, Aunt Bella.

He's missed the boat.

Let him go now, Hettie.

- Now are you glad you came?

- L couldn't have asked for more.

David!

Yes, so dreadfully disappointing

you were not able to get over.

Your lampshade was very much appreciated.

Dolly's had it packed for South America.

Lmagine that, Dodo!

Everybody admired it. Everybody!

So wonderfully clever of you.

Thank you so very much, dear.

They were there.

Yes, l saw them in the back.

Yes, it was.

Mrs Whitstable was most insistent

you should take this with you, sir.

Most insistent, she was.

Thank you, Millman.

- Of course, we had such cheerful weather.

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