BETWEEN FRIENDS.
Mr. Spooner, Q.C. (a Neophyte). "This is my Ball, I think?"
Colonel Bunting (an Adept). "By Jove, that's a jolly good 'Lie'!"
Mr. Spooner. "Really, Bunting, we're very Old Friends, of course. But I do think you might find a pleasanter way of pointing out a perfectly unintentional Mistake!"