"Well, you're a grateful bird, I don't think!" said Mr. Bouncer. "Cut after her into luncheon, and have it out over the cold mutton and pickles!"
"Oh no!" responded the luckless lover; "I can't' eat - especially before the others! I mean - I couldn't talk to her before the others. Oh! I don't know what I'm saying."
"Well, I don't think you do, old feller!" said Mr. Bouncer, puffing away at his pipe. "I'm sorry I was in the road, though! because, though I fight shy of those sort of things myself, yet I don't want to interfere with the little weaknesses of other folks. But come and have a pipe, old feller, and we'll talk matters over, and see what pips are on the cards, and what's the state of the game."
Now, a pipe was Mr. Bouncer's panacea for every kind of indisposition, both mental and bodily.
CHAPTER V.
MR. VERDANT GREEN MEETS WITH THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER.
[Note: The cousin who first appears in this Chapter is initially called "Frank" Delaval; the given name soon yields however to "Fred" ('...speaking to each other as 'Patty' and 'Fred'...'), and still later to "Frederick" ("...Frederick Delaval was a yachtsman, and owner of the Fleur-de-lys..."). These inconsistent references in this Chapter and later are to the same character, but have here been left unmodified, as in most of the later editions].