"Like the cad," he said.
They walked on awhile. Then the Colonel said more to himself than to his companion,
"I wonder if she's satisfied?"
The little lady at his side made a grimace that suggested—"Is any woman?"
But all she said was,
"She's a good woman."
"She's come a cropper once," replied the Colonel.
"She was tripped," retorted the other almost tartly. "She didn't fall."