You call it spooning, but you won't deny you went very far with that young woman--farther, I suspect, than you've told me yet.

Eh! is that true or not ?' He waited a reasonable time for a reply, but none coming, he went on--'I don't want a forced confidence.

You may say it's no business of mine, and there I agree with you, and probably if you put _me_ to the question in the same fashion, I'd give you a very short answer.

Remember one thing, however, old fellow--I've seen a precious deal more of life and the world than you have! From sixteen years of age, when _you_ were hammering away at Greek verbs and some such balderdash at Oxford, I was up at Rangoon with the very fastest set of men--ay, of women too--I ever lived with in all my life.

Half of our fellows were killed off by it.