You are filling the house with tobacco.' 'Oh heavens,--what a prejudice!' said the baronet.
'Let it be so, but still do as I ask you.' Sir Felix chucked the cigar out of his mouth on to the gravel walk, whereupon Roger walked up to the spot and kicked the offending weed away.

This was the first greeting of the day between the two men.
After lunch Lady Carbury strolled about with her son, instigating him to go over at once to Caversham.

'How the deuce am I to get there ?' 'Your cousin will lend you a horse.' 'He's as cross as a bear with a sore head.

He's a deal older than I am, and a cousin and all that, but I'm not going to put up with insolence.

If it were anywhere else I should just go into the yard and ask if I could have a horse and saddle as a matter of course.' 'Roger has not a great establishment.' 'I suppose he has a horse and saddle, and a man to get it ready.