"The Honourable Childe always says so. He has chapter and verse for all his opinions."
"He'll drop in on the way home and tell you about a run now and again, same as he did last year, I shouldn't wonder."
"No doubt he will, Melinda."
"A puzzling gentleman," declared Chaffe. "Righteousness and goodwill made alive you may say; and yet don't go to church."
His daughter headed off her father's reply.
"What's this a little bird has whispered to me about Jane Bamsey?" she asked.
"Can't say till I know the particulars."
"That my brother, Jerry, be after her."
"Haven't heard nothing. But you ought to know."
"I've guessed it. Jerry's moonstruck and always looking that way."