“Then you really won’t come?”
“No, Jack, I can’t. It would break my wife’s heart if I did, and she really is very fond of me.”
“Very well; I won’t press you, old man. But, I say, you think La Sylphide will win?”
“It’s a dead cert. Have you anything on?”
“All I’m worth, dear boy. Have you?”
“I? Nonsense! I haven’t made a bet these two years.”
“Then now’s your time.”
“No, no: I’ve done with that sort of thing.”
“But, personally, you are not flush of money, are you?”
“I? Never was so short in my life.”