He heard them under the battery, over that chiwal glass: 'And you shall pay,' says Mr.
Smith, and 'I sha'n't,' says old Tinman.

Mr.Smith said he would have it if he had to squeeze a deathbed confession from a sinner.

Then old Tinman fires out, 'You!' he says, 'you' and he stammered.

'Mr.Smith,' my husband said and you never saw a man so shocked as my husband at being obliged to hear them at one another Mr.Smith used the word damn.
'You may laugh, sir.'" "You say it so capitally, Crickledon." "And then old Tinman said, 'And a D.to you; and if I lift my finger, it's Big D.on your back." "And what did Mr.Smith say, then ?" "He said, like a man shot, my husband says he said, 'My God!'" Herbert Fellingham jumped away from the table.
"You tell me, Crickledon, your husband actually heard that--just those words ?--the tones ?" "My husband says he heard him say, 'My God!' just like a poor man shot or stabbed.

You may speak to Crickledon, if you speaks to him alone, sir.