"Quite so! You wouldn't! But Dacre has--and a few more of us." "Oh, confound Dacre!" Tommy's irritation returned with a rush.

"I detest the man! He behaves as if he were conferring a favour.

When he was making that speech to-night, I wanted to fling my glass at him." "Ah, but you mustn't do those things." Monck spoke reprovingly.

"You may be young, but you're past the schoolboy stage.

Dacre is more of a woman's favourite than a man's, you must remember.