"I'll just wait quietly and see what comes. I can't expect things to be as they were before."
"And if things go badly? —— —— —— it all!"
"Then I'm thinking I'll go too."
"Where?"
"Oh, right away. America maybe, or Canada. It's a big country they say and just beginning to open up. I shan't starve anyway, wherever I go."
"But,—to leave us all and all this? —— —— —— it all, man! The place won't be like itself without you. —— Pasley Carew!"
"It wasn't his fault, you know——"
"It was his —— fault putting Blackbird at that —— Old Road after the run we'd had, wasn't it? I told him he was two stone too heavy for her. But he always was a fool."
"He was to blame there undoubtedly. But the rest I take to myself. If folks go to the other man I can't blame them. I shall go nowhere unless I'm sent for."
"You'll have a —— long holiday," growled Barclay.