“Will you be serious, sir?”
“Yes, I’m serious enough. Where has she gone?”
“Where have you taken her?”
“I haven’t taken her anywhere, guv’nor.”
“Do you mean to tell me, sir, that you did not go up a ladder to her window?”
“Hullo!”
“Bring her down and take her right away?”
“I say, guv’nor,” cried Claud, with such startling energy that his father’s last suspicion was swept away; “is it so bad as that?”
“Then you didn’t take her off?”
“Of course I didn’t. Take her off? What, after that scene? Likely. What nonsense, guv’nor! Do you think she’d have come?”