Tony is not exactly a safe proposition, you know." "Was he--is he killed ?" cried Patricia, in a horror-stricken voice.
"Killed! Not a bit of it," said Vic cheerfully.

"Slight injury--but serious, I mean.

You know, just enough to cause anxiety." Vic lit another cigarette with ostentatious deliberation.

"Nasty shock, you know," he said.
"Who told you all this ?" inquired Rupert.
"Who told me ?" said Vic.

"Why, that mad Johnny." "Mad Johnny?
What mad Johnny ?" Vic said: "Eh! What?
You know, that--ahr--big chap who was falling over her in the fox trot.