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Book Excerpt: ...of course, there's a difference.BRIAN. I think he guessed there was something up, and he took me down to see the pigs--he said he had to see the pigs at once--I don't know why; an appointment perhaps. And we talked about pigs all the way, and I couldn't say, "Talking about pigs, I want to marry your niece--"DINAH (with mock indignation). Oh, of course you couldn't.BRIAN. No. Well, you see how it was. And then when we'd finished talking about pigs, we started talking to the pigs--DINAH (eagerly). Oh, how is Arnold?BRIAN. Arnold...? Oh yes, that's the little black-and-white one? He's very jolly, I believe, but naturally I wasn't thinking about him much. I was wondering how to begin. And then Lumsden came up, and wanted to talk pig-food, and the atmosphere grew less and less romantic, and--and I gradually drifted away.DINAH. Oh, poor darling! Well, we shall have to approach him through Olivia.BRIAN. But I always wanted to tell her...
