I heard his very words--'I've got into a proper lather,' he said.

'This will bring down my weight and my handicap, Bob.

I'll take you on tomorrow and give you a stroke a hole.' You couldn't find anything much more English than that.
They all went into the house, and left me feeling a precious idiot.

I had been barking up the wrong tree this time.

These men might be acting; but if they were, where was their audience?
They didn't know I was sitting thirty yards off in a rhododendron.