And when you are twenty-one you shall pay me back.' 'I shall pay you back long before that,' said Dicky.

'Thanks, awfully! And what about the note of hand ?' 'Oh,' said the G.B., 'I'll trust to your honour.

Between gentlemen, you know--and ladies'-- he made a beautiful bow to Alice--'a word is as good as a bond.' Then he took out a sovereign, and held it in his hand while he talked to us.

He gave us a lot of good advice about not going into business too young, and about doing our lessons--just swatting a bit, on our own hook, so as not to be put in a low form when we went back to school.

And all the time he was stroking the sovereign and looking at it as if he thought it very beautiful.