"I'm in a hurry; I have a lady with me.

No man of honor"-- "You do me wrong," interrupted Jack, with a pained expression,--"you do, indeed.

You are in a hurry--well, I have plenty of time.

If you cannot attend to me now, why I will be glad to accompany you and the lady to the next station.

Of course," he added, with a smile, "at a proper distance, and without interfering with the lady, whom I am pleased to recognize as the wife of an old friend.