I wouldn't in any case; but if Simpkins--" "I'm not going on to Simpkins yet.

I must finish Miss King first.
You've given your reasons for not making her acquaintance, and I've shown you that they are utterly feeble and won't hold water for a minute.

If you've no other objection, then I think, as a straightforward man, you are bound to admit you are in the wrong and do what you ought to have been ready to do without all this arguing." "To oblige you," said the Major, "and because I want you to have a pleasant holiday now you're here, I will ask Miss King out with us once.

But I won't ask Simpkins.

The man is a horrid bounder, who makes himself objectionable to everybody, and I won't ask him." "Nobody wants you to ask him.