He is going to try to soften your heart, I believe, by telling you all the inconveniences which Bill Gregg has endured to find you here.

But he will do his talking for himself.

Just why he has to take you out of the house, at night, before he can talk to you is, I admit, a mystery to me.

But let him do the persuading." Ronicky Doone turned to his host, a cold gleam in his eyes.

His case had been presented in such a way as to make his task of persuasion almost impossible.