We'll take them for a drink, but I stop at that, mind, Pen." "Sure thing," said Pennell.

"But come on; we'll miss them." They set out after the girls, who, after one glance back, walked on as if they did not know they were being followed.

But they walked slowly, and it was easy for the two men to catch them up.
Peter slackened a few paces behind.

"Look here, Pen," he said, "what the deuce are we going to do?
They'll expect more than a drink, you know." "Oh no, they won't, not so early as this.

It's all in the way of business to them, too.