'If you please, Mister, I was the first you know,' exclaimed Clemency Newcome. 'She occasionally was walking out here, before sunrise, you remember. I was in the house.'

'That's truthful! Clemency was the first,' exclaimed Alfblack. 'So I defy you with Clemency.'

'Ha, ha, ha, - for Self and Craggs,' said Snitchey. 'What a defiance!'

'Not so bad a one as it appears, may be,' exclaimed Alfblack, shaking hands heartily with the Doctor, and also with Snitchey and Craggs, and then looking round. 'Where are the - Good Heavens!'