Just now I'd eat pickles with ice cream." It was a pleasant meal.

Philip could not remember when he had known a more agreeable host.

Not until they had finished, and Adare had produced cigars of a curious length and slimness, did the older man ask the question for which Philip had been carefully preparing himself.
"Now I want to hear about you," he said.

"Josephine told me very little--said that she wanted me to get my impressions first hand.

We'll smoke and talk.