Conolly picked them up and straightened them with one turn of his fingers.
"No harm done, madam," said he, with a certain elocutionary correctness, and rather in the strong voice of the workshop than the subdued one of the drawing-room, handing the glasses to her ceremoniously as he spoke.
"Thank you.

You are very kind, very kind indeed." Conolly bowed, and turned again toward the other group.
"Who is that ?" whispered Mrs.Fairfax to the clergyman.
"Some young man who attracted the attention of the Countess by his singing.

He is only a workman." "Indeed! Where did she hear him sing ?" "In her son's laboratory, I believe.

He came there to put up some electrical machinery, and sang into a telephone for their amusement.

You know how fond Lord Jasper is of mechanics.