"She's a hot 'un, Sissie is.

She pitches it pretty warm on the affection-stop, I can tell you.

But if you really think you can give the other Johnnie a cut on the head with her letters--well, in the interests of true love, which never DOES run smooth, I don't mind letting you have a squint, as my friend, at one of her charming billy-doos." He took a bundle from a drawer, ran his eye over one or two with a maudlin air, and then selected a specimen not wholly unsuitable for publication.

"THERE'S one in the eye for C.," he said, chuckling.

"What would C.say to that, I wonder?
She always calls him C., you know; it's so jolly non-committing.