"I don't care what you said or what he said," she interrupted. "He should have stayed and looked after him, and not sneaked off in the dark, if he wanted to name him. Mrs. Garry says so too; don't you, Mrs. Garry?"
Mrs. Garry, directly appealed to, had to sustain the opinion she had already expressed in private.
"But I said I would," Taylor asserted. "I said I'd call him Tony."
"Well, call him Tony. Name him as Richard Taylor, and call him Tony for short," Mrs. Garry suggested.
"Tony!" Mrs. Taylor exclaimed scornfully. "What sort of a name do you call that? Why, it's only fit for a black-fellow."
"It'll do for short," Taylor said. "We'll name him Richard Taylor, and call him Tony for short."