Been talking to him ?" "Well, only a word.

I stumbled right in on him without expecting anybody was there.

I tried to be polite to him; offered him a snack"-- (Sellers delivered a large wink to Hawkins from behind his hand), "but he declined, and said he wasn't hungry" (another sarcastic wink); "so I brought some apples" (doublewink), "and he ate a couple of--" "What!" and the colonel sprang some yards toward the ceiling and came down quaking with astonishment.
Lady Rossmore was smitten dumb with amazement.

She gazed at the sheepish relic of Cherokee Strip, then at her husband, and then at the guest again.

Finally she said: "What is the matter with you, Mulberry ?" He did not answer immediately.