"What are you doing in Laurel, Mr. Mackworth?"
I noticed that he did not wear his many-patched trousers, but was well dressed....
—"attending a regents' meeting, young man,—where I suppose I'll have to stand up in your defence again....
"It's a good thing you don't run after the women, Gregory, or your case would be entirely lost."
(Yet Mackworth didn't know of the dirty trick that had been played on me:
One of the boys from the school, running wild down in Kansas City, had, with a curious sense of humour, given my name as his ... to the "girls" in various houses of prostitution....
And "do you know Johnnie Gregory?" and "when is Johnnie Gregory coming to see us again?" other students were asked who frequented the "houses.")
"And what are you up to now?" asked Mackworth.
—"acting ... in Van Maarden's Iistral ... leading rôle!"
"You look skinnier than ever!"