If such an accident as you suggest happen, he may be cross, but I will undertake to explain to him that it was not your fault." "Is the thing all right ?" he asked.
"The tandem," I replied, "is well." He said: "Have you overhauled it ?" I said: "I have not, nor is anyone else going to overhaul it.

The thing is now in working order, and it is going to remain in working order till we start." I have had experience of this "overhauling." There was a man at Folkestone; I used to meet him on the Lees.

He proposed one evening we should go for a long bicycle ride together on the following day, and I agreed.

I got up early, for me; I made an effort, and was pleased with myself.

He came half an hour late: I was waiting for him in the garden.
It was a lovely day.