"I was a little over-excited.

To get the _Scorpion_ was more, even, than I had dared to hope for.

Still, before the girls it didn't seem to matter very much.

There are no spies, anyhow, hiding in the trees of Berkeley Street," he added, glancing about them.
Thomson held up his finger and stopped a taxicab.
"You won't be annoyed with me, will you ?" he said to Conyers.

"If you'd heard half the stories I had of the things we have given away quite innocently--" "That's all right," the young man interrupted, "only you mustn't think I'm a gas-bag just because I said a word or two here before Gerry and Olive and you, old fellow." "Must you go, Hugh ?" Geraldine asked.
"I am so sorry," he replied, "but I must.