He'll be able to help us a little now.

I hope that some day he'll understand how much he owes you." "Oh, that!" she said, with a deprecating gesture.
"Miss Enschede, you're seven kinds of a brick!" "A brick ?" He chuckled.

"I forgot.

That's slang, meaning you're splendid." "I begin to see that I shall have to learn English all over again." "You have always spoken it ?" "Yes; except for some native.

I wasn't taught that; I simply fell into it from contact." "I see.