What time does the match begin ?" "At two.

You old beggar! see if I don't pay off some old scores before the day's over." "I thought you told me once your people didn't fancy your going in for athletics ?" "No more they do.

I expect a stinger by this post; but I shall not open it till after the match.

What matches we used to have at Randlebury!" "Didn't we!" "And do you remember what an ass you used to make of yourself over that precious silver watch of yours ?" It did one good to hear the laugh with which Charlie greeted this reminder.
"I'd give my repeater, and a ten-pound note besides, to get back that old watch," said he.

(If he had but known!) "But there's no knowing where it is now; poor Tom Drift must have parted with it years ago." With such talk the meal proceeded, and presently the conversation grew more general, and branched out on to all sorts of topics.