Pearson looked him squarely in the eye.
"I do," he said.

"I like you, and I don't care a damn about your hat.

Is that plain ?" Captain Elisha's reply was delivered over the balusters in the hall.
"Hi!" he called.

"Hi, Mrs.Hepton." The landlady had been anxiously waiting.

She ran from the dining room to the foot of the stairs.
"Yes ?" she cried.