But Lord love a duck, you never can tell!" Theydon was about to unlock the door of his flat when it opened in his face, and his sister nearly collided with him.

She screamed slightly, a certain quality of alarm in her exclamation merging instantly into joyful recognition.
"So you have come home!" she cried.

"My goodness! What a fright you've given me!" "Why ?" he said, with a reassuring and brotherly hug.
"I've had horrid dreams.

I couldn't rest all last night for thinking of you." "Is George absent ?" George was her husband, a consulting engineer, whose professional duties often took him to distant parts of the country.
"Yes." "Then you and Miss Beale have been living on tea and scraps.

Really, Mollie, I credited you with more sense.