"He must wait until I've finished breakfast. You'd better have a cigarette, Sam."
"No, thank you," Sam answered, and looked at a cigar-box.
"Help yourself," Bunny said.
Sam helped himself and remarked that he had been up since five o'clock with that blessed 'oss, and that it was thirsty work. So he helped himself again. After that he did not seem to mind so much what the Guv'nor said, and told Bunny that he had never met a nobleman who didn't know how to treat people properly.
We talked to Sam for some time, and just as Bunny was finishing breakfast another man came into the room.
"I had forgotten all about you," Bunny said. "I'm afraid this place is rather full of smoke," and he introduced his cousin, Mr. Eric Bruce.
"I can't congratulate you on your memory," Bruce replied; "you forgot I was going to stay with you last night, and you forget I want any breakfast. Funny chap, Augustus, isn't he?" he said to me.
"Your wire never came until I had gone yesterday, so I couldn't forget you were coming," Bunny said, and rang the bell.
"I'll tell the Guv'nor you'll be round in 'alf a jiffy," Sam said, and went out of the room jerkily, as if he had got a stiff leg.
"What curious friends you have, Augustus, and what is ''alf a jiffy'?" Bruce asked.