"Any more bunkum ?" Pritchard smiled.
"Come," he said, "you're a sensible chap.

Take these things for what they're worth.

Believe me when I tell you now that there is a great deal more in the coming of this man than Mrs.Wenham Gardner ever bargained for." "I wish you'd tell me who he is," Tavernake begged.

"All this mystery about Beatrice and her sister, and that lazy old hulk of a father, is most irritating." Pritchard nodded sympathetically.
"You'll have to put up with it a little longer, I'm afraid, my young friend," he declared.

"You've done me a good turn; I'll do you one.