I have never known Jellicoe to be so inquisitive before.
What did you think of him ?" "A quaint old cock.

I found him highly amusing.

We entertained one another for quite a long time with cross questions and crooked answers; I affecting eager curiosity, he replying with a defensive attitude of universal ignorance.

It was a most diverting encounter." "He needn't have been so close," Miss Bellingham remarked, "seeing that all the world will be regaled with our affairs before long." "They are proposing to take the case into Court, then ?" said Thorndyke.
"Yes," said Mr.Bellingham.

"Jellicoe came to tell me that my cousin, Hurst, has instructed his solicitors to make the application and to invite me to join him.