When shall we go ?" "Next week.

We must be decent, and wait till he's better now." "Oh, all right.

If we can't go to the funeral we'll go to the birthday party, eh?
It's all one to me, Teddy, as long as you don't make a fool of me in the long run." "You wait, and it'll be all right," said the captain, with a trace in his voice of something like desperation.
At the end of the following week these two nice gentlemen presented themselves at Maxfield.

Captain Oliphant had written for the brougham to meet them, and as Tom and Jill were in it, Mr Ratman was spared the embarrassment of meeting the whole household at one time.

Before the house was reached he had impressed Tom with the conviction that there was a considerable possibility of "larks" in his father's visitor.