He has balked me more than once, and I have had my revenge at the gaming table and in other places, which he is not likely to forgive or forget.

The other day he sought to provoke me by almost open insult.

It was not a woman, Tom.

I have enough on my hands without embroiling myself in affairs of gallantry.

There are women, doubtless, who are worth the championship of honest men; but in our world of London town they are few and far between.