"What girl?"
"I don't know her."
"Go on."
"Nothing.... Except I told him what I thought of him."
"For what? For speaking disrespectfully about a girl you never met?"
"Yes, sir."
"Oh. Go on."
"Nothing more, sir.... Except that we mixed it."
"I see. Did you—hold your own?"
"They said—I think I did, sir."