‘How could I!’
‘You’re not wanting in courage, Nesta.’
‘Hardly for that!’
‘By-and-by, then.’
‘Though I could not say Mr. Fenellan.’
‘You see; Dartrey, it must be.’
‘If I could!’
‘But the fellow is not a captain: and he is a friend, an old friend, very old friend: he’ll be tipped with grey in a year or two.’
‘I might be bolder then.’
‘Imagine it now. There is no disloyalty in your calling your friends by their names.’