"So she said."
Grannie's disparaging sniff was charged with libel.
"Well?" asked Tom of his wife, when he came in later on with Peter Mauger, who had come over for supper. "Got your lodger?"
"No."
"That's what I told you," with a provocative laugh.
"Oh, he'd have come quick enough."
"Would, would he? Then why didn't he?"
"I wouldn't trust myself alone in the house with that man."
"Ah!" said Tom, staring at her. "Always thought he was a bad lot myself, didn't I, Peter?"