"And what manner, pray?"

"Well, elsewhere."

"Elsewhere?--I _say_!"

This was an ejaculation used also by Captain Everard, but oh with what a
different sound! "You needn't 'say'--there's nothing to be said. And
yet you ought perhaps to know."

"Certainly I ought. But _what_--up to now?"

"Why exactly what I told him. That I'd do anything for him."

"What do you mean by 'anything'?"

"Everything."

Mr. Mudge's immediate comment on this statement was to draw from his
pocket a crumpled paper containing the remains of half a pound of
"sundries." These sundries had figured conspicuously in his prospective
sketch of their tour, but it was only at the end of three days that they
had defined themselves unmistakeably as chocolate-creams. "Have
another?--_that_ one," he said. She had another, but not the one he
indicated, and then he continued: "What took place afterwards?"

"Afterwards?"

"What did you do when you had told him you'd do everything?"