Or perhaps it is a beak developing into a nose; it depends whether he is on the downward or upward path of evolution." "Because you made me laugh," replied Godfrey, "whereby I lost at least eighteenpennyworth of information." "A laugh is worth eighteenpence," suggested Arthur.
"That depends upon how many eighteenpences one possesses.

You may have lots, some people are short of them." "Quite true.

I never looked at it in that way before.

I am obliged to you for putting it so plainly," said Arthur with his charming smile.
Such was the beginning of the acquaintance of these two, and in some cases might have been its end.

But with them it was not so.