He is waiting for you in the dining room." "Well, Carthew, how have things gone off?
I see by the papers this morning that you won the Cup, and also that the Osprey's bobstay burst at the right time, and that a great sensation had been caused by the discovery that there had been foul play.
"Why, what is the matter with you?
You look as black as a thundercloud." "And no wonder.

I won the race, but I have lost the girl." "The deuce you have.

Why, I thought that you felt quite certain of that." "So I did; and it would have come off all right if some infernal fellow had not turned up, and told her about an old affair of mine that I thought buried and forgotten three or four years ago; and it took me so aback that, as she said, my face was the best evidence of the truth of the story.

More than that, she declared that she knew that I was at the bottom of the Osprey's business.

However, she has no evidence about that; but the other story did the business for me, and the game is all up in that quarter.