And, Philip, I'm boning down like thunder at the office--I'm horribly in debt and I'm hustling to pay up and make a clean start.

You," he added, colouring, "will come first--" "At your convenience," said Selwyn, smiling.
"Not at all! Yours is the first account to be squared; then Neergard--" "Do you owe _him_, Gerald ?" "Do I?
Oh, Lord! But he's a patient soul--really, Philip, I wish you didn't dislike him so thoroughly, because he's good company and besides that he's a very able man.

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