But I know what really happened--my wife sent you.

Now didn't she ?" He had the dull man's unexpected flashes of astuteness, and Lily could not help joining in the laugh with which he had pounced on the truth.
"You see, Judy thinks I'm the safest person for you to be with; and she's quite right," she rejoined.
"Oh, is she, though?
If she is, it's because you wouldn't waste your time on an old hulk like me.

We married men have to put up with what we can get: all the prizes are for the clever chaps who've kept a free foot.

Let me light a cigar, will you?
I've had a beastly day of it." He drew up in the shade of the village street, and passed the reins to her while he held a match to his cigar.

The little flame under his hand cast a deeper crimson on his puffing face, and Lily averted her eyes with a momentary feeling of repugnance.