"We must carry on, as the Colonel says.
All the same, I did hope you'd come down in a new naval uniform, with lots of gold braid on your sleeve.

I think they might have made you an admiral, Daddy, you'd look so nice on the bridge." "I am afraid," her father replied, with his eyes glued upon the spinner which Lessingham was holding, "that that is a consideration which didn't seem to weigh with them much.

Look at the glitter of it," he went on, taking up another of the spinners.

"You see, it's got a double swivel, and they guarantee six hundred revolutions a minute." "I must plead ignorance," Lessingham regretted, "of everything connected with mackerel spinning." "It's fine sport for a change," Sir Henry declared.

"The only thing is that if you strike a shoal one gets tired of hauling the beggars in.
By-the-by, has Jimmy been up for me, Philippa?
Have you heard whether there are any mackerel in ?" Philippa raised her eyebrows.
"Mackerel!" she repeated sarcastically.
"Have you any objection to the fish, dear ?" Sir Henry enquired blandly.
Philippa made no reply.