"It was I."
"You ...?"
"Yes."
"Smacked ...?"
"Yes."
"What occasioned you to allow yourself that diversion?"
I told him my adventure, and asked him if I ought to forewarn my witnesses overnight, or if it would be time enough next morning.
He shook his head.
"Oh, neither to-night nor to-morrow morning," he said.
"What! neither to-night nor to-morrow?"