"And we came in here by the merest chance; sure, there's a fatality in these things.

We've walked all the way from Hammersmith." "And we from Putney," said Waymark.
"You don't mean it?
It's been a warm undertaking." "How did you find the walk, Mr.Egger ?" "Bedad," replied that gentleman, who had got hold of his friend's exclamation, and used it with killing effect; "I made my possible, but, bedad, I could not much more." "You both look warm," Waymark observed, smiling.

"I fear you hurried.
You should have been leisurely, as we were." "Now that's cruel, Waymark.

You needn't have reflected upon our solitariness.

If we'd been blessed with society such as you had, we'd have come slow enough.