It's one woman; and it's a girl.' 'Where's your proof ?' 'He got up and went out at eight this morning,--got up in the middle of the night, by Jove! a thing he never does except when he's on service.
Even then, remember, we had to kick him out of his blankets before the fight began at El-Maghrib.

It's disgusting.' 'It looks odd; but maybe he's decided to buy a horse at last.

He might get up for that, mightn't he ?' 'Buy a blazing wheelbarrow! He'd have told us if there was a horse in the wind.

It's a girl.' 'Don't be certain.

Perhaps it's only a married woman.' 'Dick has some sense of humour, if you haven't.