“Upon my honour, I don’t know.”
“It will destroy the last of your reputation.”
“Oh, not if you are there, sir.”
When George arrived at Lord Mapledurham’s, he found nobody except his host and Mr. Blodwell.
“I must apologize for having nobody to meet you, Mr. Neston, except an old friend. I asked young Vane—whose insolence amuses me,—and Fitzderham, but they couldn’t come.”
“Three’s a good number,” said Mr. Blodwell.
“If they’re three men. But two men and a woman, or two women and a man—awful!”
“Well, we are men, though George is a young one.”
“I don’t feel very young,” said George, smiling, as they sat down.