"Well, he seems so set on it.

He came round to see me about it yesterday morning, without any warning.

And he was full of it! I told you how full he was of it, didn't I, Caroline?
You know how he is when anything takes him." "Do I know how he is ?" murmured Caroline, arching her eyebrows.

She spoke much more broadly than either of the others.
Miss Gailey continued to Hilda, with seriousness: "It's a boarding-house that he's got control of up there.

Something about a bill of sale on the furniture, I think.