I'll say I've dropped in to give him a bit of news.

We'll tell him about the jewel business--and see how he takes it.

And while we're there--size him up!" Mitchington was right in his description of Bryce's habits--Bryce rarely went to bed before one o'clock in the morning.

He liked to sit up, reading.

His favourite mental food was found in the lives of statesmen and diplomatists, most of them of the sort famous for trickery and chicanery--he not only made a close study of the ways of these gentry but wrote down notes and abstracts of passages which particularly appealed to him.