Sterling. Oh, I only didn't want to frighten you till I'd got the money; if you had made me the loan, I'd have owned up afterwards all right enough.
Warden. Owned up what?
Sterling. That I told you a pack of lies—that I haven't any security!—that I haven't anything but debts.
Warden. [Strongly.] Good things to borrow on! Look here, Dick, how long have we been friends?
Sterling. Since that day at boarding school when you took a licking for something I did.
Warden. What I mean is we were pals at school, chums at college, stanch friends for twenty years.
Sterling. Hell! Are we as old as all that?
Warden. Inseparable friends till the last two years.
[Sterling's eyes shift.
Sterling. I've been overworked lately, and everything has gone wrong!