"By Jove, this is gallant of you, Donovan! You are a marvelous fellow!"
"I have a right to ask—I demand to know what it was you gave the girl."
"Matinée tickets—the American girl without matinée tickets is a lonely pleiad bumping through the void."
"You are a contemptible ass. Your conduct is scoundrelly. If you want to see Miss Holbrook, why don't you go to the house and call on her like a gentleman? And as for her—"
"Yes; and as for her—?"
He stepped close to me threateningly.
"And as for her—?" he repeated.
"As for her, she may go too far!"
"She is not answerable to you. She's the finest girl in the world, and if you intimate—"
"I intimate nothing. But what I saw and heard interested me a good deal, Gillespie."