7/28 I said Hart let me go on, and never came on himself; if that's a story, I'll swallow Dawkes's skiff and the sculls too." "You said he was in his room. You know you did." "I said I supposed so. It's usual for a man to go there, I believe, to get ready for dinner," added young Carteret, always ripe for a wordy war, in his antipathy to the countess-dowager. "You saw them going into their rooms, you said. Which was it--you did, or you didn't ?" "I did see Carteret make his appearance; and assumed that Lord Hartledon had gone on to his room," replied the captain, suppressing a laugh. |