"Hasn't he ever told you anything ?" "No, he has not," replied Jerry curtly.

"Nor should I ever ask him to.
I'm quite content to take him as I find him." "All the same, I believe Miss Lermontof knows something about him--something not quite to his credit." "I swear she doesn't," burst out Jerry violently.

"Just because he doesn't choose to blab out all his private affairs to the world at large, that black-browed female Tartar must needs imagine he has something to conceal.

It's damnable! I'd stake my life Errington's as straight as a die--and always has been." "You're a good friend, Jerry," said Diana, rather wistfully.
"Yes, I am," he returned stoutly.

"And so are you, as a rule.