I don't think he would," said Erebus quickly.
"No more do I," said the Terror.
They walked nearly fifty yards in silence.

Then the Terror's face cleared and brightened; and he said cheerfully: "I know the thing to do! I'll go and ask him his intentions.

That's what people said old Hawley ought to have done when the Cut--you know: that fellow from Rowington--was fooling about with Miss Hawley." "All right, we'll go and ask him," said Erebus with equal cheerfulness.
"No, no, you can't go.

I must go alone," said the Terror quickly.
"It's the kind of thing the men of the family always do--people said so about Miss Hawley--and I'm the only man of the family about.

If Uncle Maurice were in London and not in Vienna, we might send for him to do it." Erebus burst into bitter complaint.