He said that you got into the way of watering a flower-pot regularly just as you wind up your watch.

That certainly is not the case.

I always wind up my watch, and I never watered the flower-pot.

Of course, if I had been living in Gilray's rooms with the thing always before my eyes I might have done so.

I proposed to take it into my chambers at the time, but he would not hear of that.