It's after six." "I'll have to tell Brownell I'm not going to the feast." Tom gazed fascinatedly at his best trousers draped across the chair back.

"Anyway, I wasn't keen on going--without you," he murmured.
"There's only one drawback," said Steve a few minutes later, when they were on their way to supper.

"And that is that I promised Durkin to buy a rug from him." "A rug?
We don't need any rug, do we ?" asked Tom.
"Not a bit.

But this is a genuine Begorra; Durkin says so himself.

And I agreed to buy it if he'd tell 'Horace' about Sawyer.