I kept silent: I did not wish to retort as I might have done if M---- had not been present.
But Oscar was determined to assert his peculiar view.

One or two days afterwards he came in very red and excited and more angry than I had ever seen him.
"What do you think has happened, Frank ?" "I do not know.

Nothing serious, I hope." "I was sitting by the roadside on the way to Cannes.

I had taken out a Vergil with me and had begun reading it.

As I sat there reading, I happened to raise my eyes, and who should I see but George Alexander--George Alexander on a bicycle.