Tommy nodded.

"I'm full, at any rate," he said, struggling with his waistcoat.

"Oh, Shovel, I _am_ full!" Her ladyship returned, and the boys held by their contract, but of the dark character Tommy seems to have been, let not these pages bear the record.

Do you wonder that her ladyship believed him?
On this point we must fight for our Tommy.

You would have believed him.