“No, I haven’t married her, and I didn’t slope with her; so now then.”
“Do you dare to tell me that you did not go up to London?”
“No, I don’t, because I did.”
“With her, in a most disgraceful, clandestine manner?”
“No; I went alone with a very jolly good-tempered chap, whom everybody bullies and calls a liar.”
“A nice companion; and pray, who was that?”
“This chap—your sweetheart; and I came back with him too.”
“Then where is your cousin?”
“How should I know?”
“She did go away, then, the same night?”