"I wasn't in any scrape yesterday."
"So you made yourself up a comfortable bed in the drawing-room? Luckily
Sir Willoughby didn't see you."
"He didn't, though!"
"A close shave, was it?"
"I was under a covering of something silk."
"He woke you?"
"I suppose he did. I heard him."
"Talking?"
"He was talking."
"What! talking to himself?"