He's captain of the Rifles." "What's his name?
Do you know ?" "Crofts, or Crofter, or something like that.

What's up ?" He might well ask! "Crofter!" exclaimed I.

"My word, Dicky, I've been and done it!" "Done what ?" "Why, I called him a beast yesterday." "You did?
You're getting on, Jones iv." "No, without humbug, I did.

I didn't know it was Crofter, and I told him Tempest thought he was a beast." "If Tempest says so, he probably is," remarked the unemotional Dicky.
"But what's to become of me?
How was I to know ?" "I don't know.

Perhaps you'd better go and tell him you were mistaken." "I don't like to.