Was it because he was so perfectly trained a servant that he addressed the man at her side with the same respect that he would have shown to his own master?
"I may stay for tea, may I ?" she asked.

"That is something, at any rate.

I am going to look round at your things.

You don't mind, do you ?" "Certainly not," he answered.

"That big fish on the wall was caught within fifty yards of this island.