"You didn't mean 'him,' you say, George?
I suppose if we had a clergyman as a guest here you'd expect him not to be offended, and to understand that your remarks were neither personal nor untactful, if you said the church was a nuisance and ought never to have been invented.

By Jove, but you're a puzzle!" "In what way, may I ask, sir ?" "We seem to have a new kind of young people these days," the old gentleman returned, shaking his head.

"It's a new style of courting a pretty girl, certainly, for a young fellow to go deliberately out of his way to try and make an enemy of her father by attacking his business! By Jove! That's a new way to win a woman!" George flushed angrily and seemed about to offer a retort, but held his breath for a moment; and then held his peace.

It was Isabel who responded to the Major.

"Oh, no!" she said.