"You see," she says, "they are getting frightened; and not without cause."
But he will not take the reins from her.
"I know you are enjoying it," he says, just as a schoolboy would speak. "You're all right; I'll help you if you come to a fix. Give that off one a cut, he is letting the other do all the work."
"Which is the off one?" she asks, innocently.
He points to it.
"That's the one. So called because you don't let him off."
It is a feeble joke, but Leslie rewards it with a laugh far and away beyond its merits, and he laughs in harmony.
"You seem to be enjoying yourselves up there," says the duke. "Pray hand any joke down."
"It is Miss Leslie making puns," responds Yorke.