"He's worth one look, out of pure curiosity; but it would be dreadful to have him tagging you around, expressing his everlasting gratitude." "I don't imagine he'll do that," observed Patsy Doyle.

"A.

Jones strikes me as having a fair intellect in a shipwrecked body, and I'll wager a hatpin against a glove-buttoner that he won't bore you.

At the same time he may not interest you--or any of us--for long, unless he develops talents we have not discovered.

I wonder why he doesn't use his whole name.