"Shove on your king, Pennell; everyone knows you've got him.

What?
Hiding the old gentleman, are you?
Why, sure it's myself has him all the time"-- gathering up the trick and leading the king.

"Perhaps somebody's holding up the ace now...." and so on.
Pennell played well too, but very differently.

He was usually bored with his luck or the circumstances, and until you got to know him you were inclined to think he was bored with you.

He was a young-looking man of thirty-five, rather good-looking, an engineer in peace-time who had knocked about the world a good deal, but hardly gave you that impression.
The Australian played poorly.