The professor found safety in conversation.
"You know," he went on, "that I am a man of science.

Physiognomy delights me.

Men and women as I meet them represent to me varying types of humanity, all interesting, all appealing to my peculiar love of the science of psychology.

You, my dear Mr.Tavernake, if I may venture to be so personal, represent to me, as you sit there, the exact prototype of the young working Englishman.

You are, I should judge, thorough, dogmatic, narrow, persistent, industrious, and bound to be successful according to the scope and nature of your ambitions.