'I suppose it wasn't Albert's uncle ?' 'Not much,' Dicky briefly replied.
'Then don't you see it's all right.

If she's going on like that with this fellow she'll want to marry him, and Albert's uncle is safe.

And we've really done an unselfish action without having to suffer for it afterwards.' With a stealthy movement Oswald rubbed his hands as he spoke in real joyfulness.

We decided that we had better bunk unnoticed.

But we had reckoned without Martha.