Jot down the names of the freighters for this run, and skip round to their offices to verify.
An' if that don't fill the bill, well, just interview yourself, an' say if you'd allow your niece, a bonnie lass like my Iris, to take a trip that might end in 'er bein' blown to bits.

It's crool, that's wot it is, reel crool." David was not simulating this contemptuous wrath.

He actually felt it.
His harsh voice cracked when he spoke of Iris, and the excited words gushed out in a torrent.
The reporter glanced at Bulmer, who was watching Verity with a tense expectancy that was not to be easily accounted for, since his manner and speech on entering the room had been so distinctly hostile.
"The lady referred to was Miss Iris Yorke, then ?" "'Oo else?
I've on'y one niece.

My trouble is that she went without my permission, in a way of speakin'.

'Ere, you'd better 'ave the fax.
She was engaged to my friend, Mr.Bulmer, but, bein' a slip of a girl, an' fond o' romancin', she just put herself aboard the Andromeeda without sayin' 'with your leave' or 'by your leave.' She wrote me a letter, w'ich sort of explains the affair.