So I held my peace and said nothing to Mr.Lindsey--and presently the office work for the day was over and I was free to race home with my grand news.
Is it likely that with such news as that I would be troubling my head any longer about other folks' lives and deaths?
That, I suppose, was the most important evening I had ever spent in my life.

To begin with, I felt as if I had suddenly become older, and bigger, and much more important.

I became inclined to adopt magisterial airs to my mother and my sweetheart, laying down the law to them as to the future in a fashion which made Maisie poke fun at me for a crowing cockerel.

It was only natural that I should suffer a little from swelled head that night--I should not have been human otherwise.

But Andrew Dunlop took the conceit out of me with a vengeance when Maisie and I told him the news, and I explained everything to him in his back-parlour.