'And the mignonette and wall-flower ?' 'The same,' said the visitor.
'Pray walk in.' 'Thank you.' Neville lighted his candles, and the visitor sat down.

A handsome gentleman, with a young face, but with an older figure in its robustness and its breadth of shoulder; say a man of eight-and-twenty, or at the utmost thirty; so extremely sunburnt that the contrast between his brown visage and the white forehead shaded out of doors by his hat, and the glimpses of white throat below the neckerchief, would have been almost ludicrous but for his broad temples, bright blue eyes, clustering brown hair, and laughing teeth.
'I have noticed,' said he; '-- my name is Tartar.' Neville inclined his head.
'I have noticed (excuse me) that you shut yourself up a good deal, and that you seem to like my garden aloft here.

If you would like a little more of it, I could throw out a few lines and stays between my windows and yours, which the runners would take to directly.

And I have some boxes, both of mignonette and wall-flower, that I could shove on along the gutter (with a boathook I have by me) to your windows, and draw back again when they wanted watering or gardening, and shove on again when they were ship-shape; so that they would cause you no trouble.

I couldn't take this liberty without asking your permission, so I venture to ask it.