I don't know what I should have done if that blackguard had treated me like that." "What's the use ?" said Reginald.

"He wants to get rid of me, and I'm not going to let him." "I'm jolly glad of it for my sake.

I wish I could pay him out for you." "So you can." "How ?" "Next time he wants you to go and drink, say No," said Reginald.
"Upon my word I will," said Gedge; "and I don't care how hot he makes it for me, if you stick by me, Cruden." "You know I'll stick by you, young 'un," said Reginald; "but that won't do you much good, unless you stick by yourself.

Suppose Durfy managed to get rid of me after all--" "Then I should go to--to the dogs," said Gedge, emphatically.
"You're a greater fool than I took you for, then," said Reginald.

"If you only knew," he added more gently, "what a job it is to do what's right myself, and how often I don't do it, you'd see it's no use expecting me to be good for you and myself both." "What on earth am I to do, then?
I'm certain I can't keep square myself; I never could.