“I wish them joy of the business. I don’t know why you mix me up with it.”
“Why, it was your pet show, wasn’t it?”
“It got fathered on to me because I could understand what it was about.”
“Yes, you told Vinyolles, didn’t you?”
“The ignorant brute asked me.”
“I know. He’s all fresh. I find him trying also. Well, he knows all about it now.”
“Tell you the truth, I’ve no idea what I said, Kavanagh! I was feeling queer!”
“Vinyolles thought you’d gone potty.”
“He wasn’t far wrong.”
“He said you told him the whole British Army was guilty of the Kerrime at Vanderlynden’s!”