Chapter 27

“We shouldn’t be doing this—I suppose, grandpater?” “Quite wrong, according to popular superstition. Shows that one’s estimate of time is purely relative!” “I say, ought I to have put some hot water in the teapot?” “Never mind, to-day.” “Sins of omission! Tell me, grandpater, was that true——?” “What?” “That you haven’t had a holiday for years?” “What is a holiday?” “Then you haven’t.” “I have not removed my body to some place by the seaside, or into Wales or the Lake District. But the other part of me has travelled…