Look here, Miriam, we don't want to harp upon this affair; it's a beastly bad business, and the sooner we forget it the better.

For Heaven's sake, let's drop it here and now.

I shan't refer to it, shan't mention Derrick Dene's name again; and don't you.

Just push that tray over, will you?
I've had a deuced unpleasant scene with him, I can tell you; and it's upset me deucedly.

But there!" he added, with a jerk of the head, as he mixed a stiff soda and whisky, "there's an end of him, so far as we're concerned.