What happened I don't exactly know," he went on ruminatively.
"Phipps couldn't have squeezed him, or we should have heard about it, but somehow or other the two got at loggerheads, for it's common knowledge amongst their business connections--I don't know that they have any friends--that Wingate has sworn to break Phipps.

There will be quite a commotion in the City when it gets about that Wingate is here or on his way over." "It's almost like a romance," Sarah declared, as she took the ice which her cavalier had brought her and settled down once more in her chair.
"Tell me more about Mr.Wingate, please.

Mr.Phipps I know, of course, and he doesn't seem in the least terrifying.

Is Mr.Wingate like that or is he a dourer type ?" "John Wingate," Kendrick said reflectively, "is a much younger man than Phipps---I should say that he wasn't more than thirty-five--and much better-looking.

I must say that in a struggle I shouldn't know which to back.