He sat forward in the chair in an attitude antipathetic to digression from the subject in hand.
"I do not see any evidence of that.

One hears of you here and there in France.

I suppose, for instance, you know more than any man in Paris at the present moment of the--" he paused and suppressed a yawn, "the--er--vintage.

Anything in it--eh ?" "So far as I could judge, the rains came too late; but I shall be glad to tell you all about it another time.

This morning--" "Yes; I know.