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"I suppose it seems rummy to you," I said, "but the fact is New York often bucks chappies up and makes them show a flash of speed that you wouldn't have imagined them capable of. It sort of develops them. Something in the air, don't you know. I imagine that Bicky in the past, when you knew him, may have been something of a chump, but it's quite different now.
She wrote a letter for me in their rummy lingo to my young man!" "Cripps!" He stared in dismay. "Blessed if I 'adn't forgot. But if an Englishman marries a foreigner," he swelled heroic, "that puts 'er in the stryte runnin'. And 'art an' 'and I'm 'ers, whenever she'll 'ave me! Tell 'er THAT with a double row of crosses from W. Keyse! And can you remember a bit o' poetry?"
But there, if I can set set till I 'ear Stepney Church goin twelve I can earn my ten shillin a week, an keep the lot of 'em. Wot does any lidy or genelman want, a comin' meddlin down 'ere? Now, that's the middle an both ends on it. Done? Well, I dessay I is done. Lor, I ses to em in the orspital it do seem rummy to me to be layin abed like that. If Tom was 'ere, why, 'e'd "
She particularly wanted to hear Caruso. I had the ticket for the box in my pocket. Do you know, all through dinner I had a kind of rummy idea that there was something I'd forgotten, but I couldn't think what?" "Till your wife mentioned it?" He nodded "She mentioned it," he said thoughtfully. I didn't ask for details.
"Yes, the dear girl had been rummy at breakfast. She had not exactly said anything or done anything out of the ordinary; but well, you know how it is. We husbands, we lads of the for-better-or-for-worse brigade, we learn to pierce the mask.
"I know, I know," he said. "It's very rum you must naturally find it so. I know exactly how you feel about it. Oh, rum's the only word for it. Or rummy. Yes, you might call it rummy or a go, you know or anything like that." Then he grew plausible. "But I'm sure it's all right. It's a long story, but I'm quite sure. You've no idea what a fine girl that is. Ah, but I know it."
By three o'clock an imposing array of sheets of foolscap covered with badly-written Greek lay on the study table. "That ought to be enough," said Linton, laying down his pen. "He can't set you more than we've done, I should think." "Rummy how alike our writing looks," said Dunstable, collecting the sheets and examining them. "You can hardly tell which is which even when you know.
Three years it had been in that condition, but nobody seemed to want it; occasionally some important person came rushing down in a motor-car, but after running over the house he would come out and, remarking that it was a "rummy old place," remount his car and vanish in a cloud of dust to be seen no more.
It was not until I had reached the drawing-room and was enabled to take a square look at the Bassett that I found the debonair gaiety with which I had embarked on this affair beginning to wane a trifle. Beholding her at close range like this, I suddenly became cognisant of what I was in for. The thought of strolling with this rummy specimen undeniably gave me a most unpleasant sinking feeling.
You're a widow who has lost two sons in South Africa. We'll think of a good name afterwards. Ready? "Ever since my darling Charles Herbert and Percy Lionel were taken from me in that dreadful war, I have turned for consolation to the pages of 'The Soul of Anthony Carrington' and " "What, another?" asked Linton. "There's one called 'Pancakes." "Sure? Sounds rummy." "That's all right.
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