It teaches people not to waste their tubes.' 'I should like to attract some of your colours, Dick.

Perhaps I might catch your success with them.' 'I mustn't say a bad word, but I should like to.

What in the world, which you've just missed a lovely chance of seeing, does success or want of success, or a three-storied success, matter compared with---- No, I won't open that question again.

It's time to go back to town.' 'I'm sorry, Dick, but----' 'You're much more interested in that than you are in me.' 'I don't know, I don't think I am.' 'What will you give me if I tell you a sure short-cut to everything you want,--the trouble and the fuss and the tangle and all the rest?
Will you promise to obey me ?' 'Of course.' 'In the first place, you must never forget a meal because you happen to be at work.

You forgot your lunch twice last week,' said Dick, at a venture, for he knew with whom he was dealing.' 'No, no,--only once, really.' 'That's bad enough.