Have you ever heard me say a thing I didn't mean ?" "To be quite candid," said the Major, "I have, once or twice." "You're entirely mistaken.

You have not.

And in any case I mean what I say now.

Do you really suppose that I'd have spent the whole of this hot day fagging up and down the roads about Ballymoy if I wasn't in earnest about what I was at ?" "But you don't.

You can't think that this lady--Miss King or whatever her name is--will really murder Simpkins ?" "She'll try to if she marries him.