Horses were his only analogy; he thought in terms of horses; and perhaps, as a consequence, although he could give no reasons for his judgments upon people, those judgments as a rule were conspicuously sound.

Jupp shook hands with Hillyard, and turned to the student at the window.
"Well, Joan, how have you lived without us?
Aren't you bored with your large, beautiful self ?" Joan looked at him with an annihilating glance, and crossed the room to Millie Splay.
"Bored! How could I be?
When I have so many priceless wasted hours to make up for!" "Yes, yes, my dear," said Millie Splay soothingly.

"Come and have some tea." "That's it, Joan," cried Jupp, unrepressed by the girl's contempt.

"Come and have tea with the barbarians." Joan addressed herself to Dennis Brown, as one condescending from Olympus.
"I hope you had a good day." "Awful," Dennis Brown admitted.

"We ought to have had five nice wins on form.