"Kate has chucked Eugene over." "Nonsense!" But she started and colored, all the same.
"I suppose you were at Baden and saw it all, and I wasn't!" said Rickmansworth, with ponderous satire.

"So we won't say any more about it." "Well, what do you mean ?" "No; never mind! It doesn't matter--all a mistake.

I'm always making some beastly blunder--eh, Bob ?" and he winked gently at his appreciative brother.
"Yes, you're an ass, of course!" said Bob, entering into the family humor.
"Good thing I've got a sister to keep me straight!" pursued the Earl, who was greatly amused with himself.

"Might have gone about believing it, you know." Claudia was annoyed.

Brothers are annoying at times.
"I don't see any fun in that," she said.
Lord Rickmansworth drank some beer (beer was the Territon drink), and maintained silence.
The butler came in with his satellite, swept away the beer and the other _impedimenta_, and put on dessert.