"By Jove!"
"It's what I call the Superiority of the Superlative over the Comparative."
"It sounds simple," said Stover pensively.
"When you know the trick."
"You know, Dennis," said Stover, smiling reminiscently, "I used to have the gift of gab once, almost up to you."
"Then let's take a few crouching starts," said Dennis, delighted.
"Go ahead."
"Room full of fellows. You enter."
"I enter."
"I speak: 'Dink, I bet Bill here a quarter that you used a toothbrush.'"