The Badminton Magazine 1899-02: Vol 8 Iss 43 (1899)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 4
| THE ORDEAL OF THE SPEAR 123 ‘No—at least, not exactly—except that—well, I had intended to do the same thing myself.’ ‘You!’ ‘Yes, but it never struck me that you were meaning anything that way. I never thought——’ Then both relapsed into silence for a moment, till Austin summed up the situation… … ‘Well, by gum, we are in a queer hat! What is to be done?’ There was then a silence for so long that Austin, coming back to the actual situation first, exclaimed, ‘ Bloggs, are you asleep ?’ Calvert, who was lying back in an armchair, no longer smoking, merely flung back the word with some scorn in…
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