He mesmerised 'em, simply mesmerised 'em-till we got here.

I don't know what happened then.

Now we're distinctly rating low, the laugh is on us somehow.
But he--mind it?
He goes about talking to the sheikhs as though we were all eating off the same corn-cob, and it seems to stupefy them; they don't grasp it.

He goes on arranging for a post here and a station there, and it never occurs to him that it ain't really actual.

He doesn't tell me, and I don't ask him, for I came along to wipe his stirrups, so to speak.