I had been in terror lest he would have collared the first cup and stuck to it.
"Thank you, if you will, please.

I see they are beginning to get your old house ready for rebuilding." "It won't be ready this term, though," said Warminster; "it will take--a slice of cake, thanks." "No sugar for me, thanks," said Coxhead.

"I wonder if Jarman will have to pay for it ?" "Does your _mater_ take cream and sugar ?" said Purkis to me, in an aside.
"I shouldn't think so," said Langrish, "because he didn't do it on purpose, you know." "Thank you very much.

Do you mind putting it down there?
And won't you sit down ?" said my mother, setting the example.
"I expect he'd better give up smoking, as he's always setting things on fire," ventured I.

"Mother knows about the guy last term, don't you, mother ?" "Yes, indeed," said she, with a laugh, which won over the Philosophers in a body.