"Well it's safe enough to promise. There aren't many opportunities of meeting."
"No, that's the worst of it, there aren't now. Still, you might meet him any minute on the stairs, or anywhere. And if you go saying things you'll only make him angry."
"Oh it's a him, is it?" (Now he was thinking of Soper.) "I know. Don't say Soper's been making himself unpleasant."
"He's always unpleasant."
"Is he? By 'Eaven, if I catch him!"
"Do be quiet. It isn't Mr. Soper."
"Isn't it?"
"No. How could it be? You don't call Mr. Soper nice, do you?"
Spinks was really quiet for a moment. "I say, Flossie, have you and Rickets been 'aving a bit of a tiff?"
"What do you want to know that for? It's nothing to you."