He said whatever you had in your sleeve was your affair and, if he was any judge of character, it would stay there till you got ready to shake it out.

He always stood up for you, even before the Shore Lane business happened.

I think he likes you better than any one else in Denboro." "Present company excepted, of course." "Oh, of course.

If that wasn't excepted I should REALLY be jealous.
Then," more seriously, "Roscoe, does it seem to you that George is worried or troubled about something lately ?" I thought of Taylor's sudden change of expression that day in the bank, and of his remark that he wished he had my chance.

But I concealed my thoughts.
"The prospect of marriage is enough to make any man worried, isn't it ?" I asked.