I replied, "I rather enjoyed it." "Well, there's not another fellow in the office would do the same," said he.
Wasn't there?
I thought I knew better.

"I think there's one other fellow," I said, hesitatingly.

"Eh--oh, Bull's-eye! Yes, you're right there, and he'd have knocked it off smarter than you've done too, my boy." There was a pause after this.

We had both accidentally got on to an awkward topic.

Doubleday was the first to speak.
"I say, Batchelor," he went on, quite nervously for him, "excuse my saying it, but it's my opinion you're a bit of a fool, do you know!" This unexpected announcement, coming from this unexpected quarter, naturally astonished me.