"Explain, please!" said Sir John.
Daphne did so. "We had to call you something," she concluded apologetically. "Do you mind?"
"Not at all. I have been called a good many names in my time," said Sir John grimly.
"What do your friends call you?" asked Daphne—"your intimate friends."
"I am not sure that I have any."
Daphne surveyed him shrewdly, with her head a little on one side.
"No—I should think you were that sort," she said gravely. "Well, what do your—do other people call you?"
"Most of them, I believe," said Sir John, "call me 'Juggernaut Carr.'"