“I don’t know but I’ll join you,” said a passenger.
Percy Burnett looked excessively annoyed.
“If you don’t object to my company,” continued the other.
“Please yourself, sir,” said Burnett in a repellent tone, which showed very clearly his aversion to the proposal.
“On the whole, I guess, I will stick by the stage,” said the other, seeing that his company would be unwelcome.
Mr. Burnett looked very much relieved.
“You can leave your baggage on the coach,” said the driver, noticing that Burnett had his bag in his hand.
“I’d rather keep it. Tom, bring yours with you.”
Of course Tom obeyed, though he did not see any advantage in burdening himself with what might just as well have gone in the coach.
“That’s an agreeable man,” said the passenger, whose overtures had been declined, after the coach drove off.