You knew very well I hadn't dropped it!' He chuckled.
'It did as well as anything else.

I got five minutes' talk with you.

I found out where you lodged.' 'Poor papa!'-- said Nelly reflectively--'he was so puzzled.

"There's that fellow we saw at Wythburn again! Why on earth does he come here to fish?
I never saw anybody catch a thing in this bit of the river." Poor papa!' They were both silent a little.

Mr.Cookson had not lived long enough to see Nelly and George Sarratt engaged.