"I got engaged to her; she hadn't a penny."
"Just like you."
"And her people haven't a penny, and I wrote like a fool telling the relative. He gave me the option of cutting her off or being cut off. It seems her people were the real obstacle. He wrote quite libellous things about them. I refused."
"Of course."
"And he cut me off. Well, the funny thing was she cut me off a week later, and she's engaged now to a chap called Harkness."
"Well, why don't you tell the relative and make it up?"
"Tell him she'd fired me! Besides, it's no use, he'd just go on to other things—what he calls extravagances and irresponsibilities."
"I see."
"That's just how it is."
"Look here, Bobby," said Tozer, "you've just got to cut all this nonsense and get to work. You've been making a fool of yourself."