"How was that?"
"First of all, I told him that I had met you and all you told me about yourself."
"That made him angry?"
"And when I told him I wanted to have another shot at something, a jolly good shot this time, he said, 'I suppose that means you want money?'"
"What did you say?"
"One can't make money without. That's what all the row's been about. He's a fearful old screw."
"As well as I remember, my father always liked him."
"That was before I grew up to sour his life."
"Did you tell him how you saved Jill's life?" asked Mavis.
"I'd forgotten that, and I'm also forgetting my fishing."