I've seen how it was between you for some time." "So 'ave I," said Mr.Kybird.

He shook hands warmly with Mr.Nugent, and, patting that perturbed man on the back, surveyed him with eyes glistening with approval.
"It's a bit rough on Teddy, isn't it ?" inquired Mr.Nugent, anxiously; "besides--" "Don't you worry about 'im," said Mr.Kybird, affectionately.

"He ain't worth it." "I wasn't," said Mr.Nugent, truthfully.

The situation had developed so rapidly that it had caught him at a disadvantage.

He had a dim feeling that, having been the cause of Miss Kybird's losing one young man, the most elementary notions of chivalry demanded that he should furnish her with another.