Do go on.
There won't be any pool till four o'clock." The Colonel smiled good-naturedly.
"It's good of you fellows to listen to my prosing," he remarked.

"No use denying that it is a sort of hobby of mine.

You all know it.

Well, we'll say we've finished with the cabby, then.

Enter upon the scene, of all people in the world, our friend Wrayson!" "Hear, hear!" murmured Mason.
Wrayson changed his position slightly.