"You artful old fox! I believe you had first word after all.

I wondered that she gave in so easily.

What did you say to her ?" "That," said Lucas gently, "is a matter entirely between myself and one other." Bertie broke into his gay boyish laugh and sounded the hooter for sheer lightness of heart.
"Oh, king, live for ever--and then some! You're just the finest fellow in the world!" "Open to question, I am afraid," said the millionaire with his quiet smile.

"And as to living for ever--well, I guess it's a cute idea in the main, but under present conditions it's a notion that makes me tired." "Who said anything about present conditions ?" demanded Bertie, almost angrily; and then in an altered voice: "Old man, I didn't mean that, and you know it.

I only meant that you will always be wanted wherever you are.