I'm to drive, remember! There's no servant with us, old boy, to notice, and tell tales." Even Arnold began to see dimly by this time that he was likely to pay his debt of obligation with interest--as Sir Patrick had foretold.
"What am I to say to her ?" he asked.

"I'm bound to do all I can do to help you, and I will.

But what am I to say ?" It was a natural question to put.

It was not an easy question to answer.
What a man, under given muscular circumstances, could do, no person living knew better than Geoffrey Delamayn.

Of what a man, under given social circumstances, could say, no person living knew less.
"Say ?" he repeated.