"And all the time her husband was married again and got a big family in Australia.
There's nothing in the world so faithful as a woman's heart." "Well, if you're lost on a cruise, I shall know where to look for you," said Mr.Tredgold.

"But I don't think the captain ought to put such ideas into your head." Mr.Chalk looked bewildered.

Then he scratched his left whisker with the stem of his churchwarden pipe and looked severely over at Mr.Tredgold.
"I don't think you ought to talk that way before ladies," he said, primly.

"Of course, I know you're only in joke, but there's some people can't see jokes as quick as others and they might get a wrong idea of you." "What part did you think of going to for your cruise ?" interposed Captain Bowers.
"There's nothing settled yet," said Mr.Chalk; "it's just an idea, that's all.

I was talking to your father the other day," he added, turning to Mr.Tredgold; "just sounding him, so to speak." "You take him," said that dutiful son, briskly.