"When does it jump, as you call it?
When you go up hill ?" Ruggiero laughed.
"Am I old or fat ?" he inquired contemptuously.

"It happened first this morning.

I was waiting in the hotel and a lady came by and spoke to me--about a certain boat." "A lady?
H'm! Young perhaps, and pretty ?" "That is my business.

Then half an hour later I was talking to the Son of the Fool.

You know him I daresay.