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`` From an observer 's point of view , John , it looks to me as though you were going to have something more than hope to live on pretty soon ! '' `` I -- I hope so . '' `` And when I was going with Peggy I would n't have traded a quiet little walk with her -- like this you 're suggesting -- for a front seat look at a blow-up of the whole Rocky Mountain system ! '' `` And you wo n't forget to tell Mrs. Blackton that we may not return by four o'clock ? '' `` I will not . And '' -- Blackton puffed hard at his pipe -- `` and , John -- the Tête Jaune preacher is our nearest neighbour , '' he finished . From then until dinner time John Aldous lived in an atmosphere that was not quite real , but a little like a dream .