"Instead! Instead of whom?"
"Instead of me."
"Well, I'm--hanged!"
"Yes, that's exactly what I am. And as this is the result of my first love-letter, I don't want to have a second experience of the same kind, you understand."
"Then he's done it after all! What a fool I've been!"
"Well, it does seem that there's a fool somewhere in the case."
"I've done it all!"
"The deuce you have!"
"Do you know this man Summers?"
"Of course I do. Didn't you see I did when I met him here the other day?"