"Naughty boy! Naughty Cousin Harold!"
"You're laughing! Very well, just wait. To tease her, he would. 'Now, look here,' he said, 'every ladder I come to I mean to go under twice.' And he did. And his mother couldn't stop him, and she cried. And—that's all——"
"All? But where's the point?"
"I didn't say there was a point. You know about mother's Cousin Harold."
"I'm hanged if I do."
"He never, never came back."
"Goodness!"
"He never even got there."
"Break it gently, Nell."
"The ship he went in sank, and no one escaped to tell the dreadful tale."