Captain Sol did understand.

Also Mr.
Phinney himself was beginning to understand a little.
The very day on which Williams and his foreman had called on the depot master and been dismissed so unceremoniously, that official paid a short visit to his mover.
"Sim," he said, the twinkle still in his eye, "his Majesty, Williams the Conqueror, was in to see me just now and acted real peevish.

He was pretty disrespectful to you, too.

Called your outfit 'one horse.' That's a mistake, because you've got two horses at work right now.

It seems a shame to make a great man like that lie.