There's just one thing to do." "It seems to me there are a great many things to do that we didn't consider when we started," ventured she.
"We must let him believe we are brother and sister until after we are married.

Then we'll have the laugh on him.

I know it's not very pleasant to explain your own joke, or to tell the other fellow when to laugh, but it seems to be the only way.

We can't escape him, you know.

He is to be at his post by the twentieth of May." "After all, I think we ought to be nice to him.