Time is meant to be the servant, not the master of--" "Don't begin a tirade," said the Major, "but let us get at what's left of our dinner.

There won't be much, and what there is will be charred." "Wait a minute," said Meldon.

"I don't deny that I'm hungry and tired, but I'd rather ride all the way back to Donard than sit down at table with you in the temper you're in at present." "It'll be worse," said the Major, "if I'm kept waiting any longer.

And I know what your tirades are.

If you start on a vague sort of subject like time you'll be at it for an hour before you've finished." "Very well," said Meldon.