Been on your beam ends, have you ?" "I don't know, sir.

I fell down in the bushes coming across.

There were vines and they tripped me up.

And the umbrella was so heavy that--" "Yes, I could see right off you was carryin' too much canvas.

Now take off your bunnit and I'll get a coat of mine to wrap you up in." He went into his bedroom and returned with a heavy "reefer" jacket.
Ordering his caller to stand up he slipped her arms into the sleeves and turned the collar up about her neck.