"Robert Kennedy garrotted!" "The fellow was in the act of doing it." "And you stopped him?" "Yes;—I got there just in time. Wasn't it lucky?" "You ought to be garrotted yourself. I should have lent the man a hand had I been there." "How can you say anything so horrible? But you are drinking too much, old fellow, and I shall lock the bottle up." "If there were no one in London drank more than I do, the wine merchants would have a bad time of it. And so the new Cabinet Minister has been garrotted in the street. Of course I'm sorry for poor Laura's sake."
