"'The greatest thing in life—what's that?'"
Buller laughed so loudly at this part of his story, that the other people in the carriage began to stare at him and Vaughan. So he went on in a lower whisper. "'What's that?' says I.
"'I mean,' says Crabbe, 'why, what I have been talking about.'
"'Well, what is it?'
"'What I was saying a little while ago.'
"'But you talked too fast—I couldn't catch it; give us the tip, out with it.'
"'I mean love, passion,' says he.
"'What? say it again.'
"'Well, I mean—and it's always said that love—the poets—'
"'The who?'