D'you really mean that you won't sleep next door to-night, Pegler?
Mrs. Pegler was by no means deaf, for she caught a word as it was uttered.
Pegler knew that her lady had been rather "put out" at not having received her usual Christmas letter from Mr. Mark Gifford.
I've something very important to say to you—something which I certainly don't want Pegler to hear me say to you.
He did not wish prim Miss Pegler to come in and find him sitting on Bubbles' bed, when no one was yet up in the house.
