Besides, it's time to dress for dinner." "Is it?
So it is, by George! But I mean to have a smoke first, I can tell you.

So it's all a lie about your being engaged; eh ?" "As far as I know, it is," said Crosbie.

And then his friend left him.
What was he to do at once, now, this very day, as to his engagement?
He had felt sure that the report of it would be carried to Courcy by Lady Julia De Guest, but he had not settled down upon any resolution as to what he would do in consequence.

It had not occurred to him that he would immediately be charged with the offence, and called upon to plead guilty or not guilty.

He had never for a moment meditated any plea of not guilty, but he was aware of an aversion on his part to declare himself as engaged to Lilian Dale.