Make haste now, and remember that you are not to stay long, for my father is ill." And then leading Aby through the hall and along a passage, he introduced him into Sir Thomas's room.
"And Herbert--" said the father; whereupon Herbert again turned round.

His father was endeavouring to stand, but supporting himself by the back of his chair.

"Do not disturb me for half an hour; but come to me then, and knock at the door.

This gentleman will have done by that time." "If we do not put a stop to this, your father will be in a mad-house or on his death-bed before long." So spoke Mr.Somers in a low, solemn whisper when Herbert again joined him at the hall-door.
"Sit down, sir; sit down," said Sir Thomas, endeavouring to be civil and to seem at his ease at the same time.

Aby was himself so much bewildered for the moment, that he hardly perceived the embarrassment under which the baronet was labouring.
Aby sat down, in the way usual to such men in such places, on the corner of his chair, and put his hat on the ground between his feet.
Then he took out his handkerchief and blew his nose, and after that he expressed an opinion that he was in the presence of Sir Thomas Fitzgerald.
"And you are Mr.Abraham Mollett," said Sir Thomas.
"Yes, Sir Thomas, that's my name.