This is some of your meddling." "What if it is ?" she retorted; but her breath was coming quicker.
"I'll tell you; you can get up and ring him up and tell him you expect him to-night." She shook her head, eyeing him all the while.
"I won't do it, Jack.

What do you want him for?
He can't play with the people who play here; he doesn't know the rudiments of play.

He's only a boy; his money is so tied up that he has to borrow if he loses very much.

There's no sport in playing with a boy like that--" "So you've said before, I believe, but I'm better qualified to judge than you are.

Are you going to call him up ?" "No, I am not." He turned paler.