"The Pinky Dinky says suddenly while he is making the tea, 'We're

allbeing frightfully funny. It's time for you to say something

now.'"

"The Pinky Dinky shakes his head and says: 'I'm afraid I shall never

be aresponsiblebeing.' And hereally IS frivolous."

"Frivolous but not vulgar," said Esmeer.

"Pinky Dinkys are chaps who've had their buds nipped," said

Hatherleigh. "They're Plebs and theyknow it. They haven't the

Guts to get hold of things. And so they worry up all those silly

little jokes of theirs to carry it off."…

We tried bad ones for a time, viciously flavoured.

Pinky Dinkys are due to over-production of the type that ought to

keep outfitters' shops. Pinky Dinkys would like to keep outfitters'

shops with whimsy 'scriptions on the boxes and make your bill out

funny, and not be snobs to customers, no!-not even if they had

titles."

"Every Pinky Dinky's people are rathergood people, and better than

most Pinky Dinky's people. But he does not put on side."

"Pinky Dinkys become playful at thesight of women."

"'Croquet's my game,' said the Pinky Dinky, andfelt a man

condescended."

"But what the devil do theythink they're up to, anyhow?" roared old

Hatherleigh suddenly, dropping plump into bottomlessdespair.

Wefelt we had still failed to get at the core of the mystery of the

Pinky Dinky.

We tried over things about his religion. "The Pinky Dinky goes to

King's Chapel, and sits andfeels in the dusk. Solemn things! Oh

HUSH! He wouldn't tell you-"

"He COULDN'T tell you."

"Religion is so sacred to him he never talks about it, never reads

about it, neverthinks about it. Justfeels!"

"But in his heart of hearts, oh! ever so deep, the Pinky Dinky has a

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