So long as we have him in London, there will never be any serious fear of misunderstanding between the two countries." "What a howling optimist you are!" Norgate observed.
"My young friend," Hebblethwaite protested, "I am nothing of the sort.

I am simply a man of much common sense, enjoying, I may add, a few hours' holiday.

By-the-by, Norgate, if one might venture to enquire without indiscretion, who was the remarkably charming foreign lady whom you were escorting ?" "The Baroness von Haase," Norgate replied.

"She is an Austrian." Mr.Hebblethwaite sighed.

He rather posed as an admirer of the other sex.
"You young fellows," he declared, "who travel about the world, are much to be envied.