I wouldn't let the captain know that you were so tired as to have to lie down after a game of tennis, for a ten pound note.

Nothing puts a man off a girl so soon as to hear that she's delicate." "Oh, he--he doesn't care," half sobbed Matty.
"Oh, doesn't he, though?
I never knew anything more like caring than for him to be too shy to come near you.

Things have gone pretty far when a man has to blind his mother by pretending to be taken up with another girl.

I knew the captain was in love, Matty, but I did not suppose he was deep enough to play his cards after that fashion.

You get up now, lovey, and come down, and have a nice hot cup of tea.