We shall all find this affair a nuisance.

Nevil will pay through the nose.

We shall have the ridicule spattered on the family.

It would be a safer thing for him to invest his money on the Turf, and I shall advise his doing it if I come across him.
'Perhaps the best course would be to telegraph for the marquise!' This was from Cecil Baskelett.

He added a postscript: 'Seriously, the "mad commander" has not an ace of a chance.