“You may understand that without a doubt.”
“And why, pray?”
“I am already engaged, Mr. Nettlethorpe. This is a very cogent reason.”
“Then why couldn’t you say so at first, without all this cursed preaching?”
“Your hat, Mr. Nettlethorpe!”
“When you have spent all your money, come and borrow some of me, and you shall have it at sixty per cent.”
“Your stick, Mr. Nettlethorpe!”
“Dash the stick! Let it stay where it is. It’ll do for your husband to lay across your back when you’ve made a fool of him.”
No. 43.
