I admitted that he could probably keep me from getting the lease, but I could also keep him from getting it.

Bell nearly had a stroke at that threat.

Henry behaved very decently throughout.

I think it must have pleased him to find that somebody in Wichita, besides him, had the courage to defy his father; anyhow, he said, '"Bob" has beaten us at our own game.

She knows enough now to place that lease in half an hour, and I think we'd better take her in.