What do you do it for, Mr.Blank ?" "What did you come for, if it's rotten sport ?" asked Plank so simply that it took O'Hara a moment to realise he had been snubbed.
"I didn't mean to be offensive," he drawled.
"I suppose you can't help it," said Plank very gently; "some people can't, you know." And there was another silence, broken by Mortimer, whose entire hulk was tingling with a mixture of surprise and amusement over his protege's developing ability to take care of himself.

"Did you say that Stephen Siward is in Westbury, Billy ?" "No; he's in town," replied Fleetwood.

"I took his horses up to hunt with.

He isn't hunting, you know." "I didn't know.

Nobody ever sees him anywhere," said Mortimer.