You will be as rapid as possible ?" he said to the tailor.
The man in green bowed, and, advancing, seated himself by Graham on the bed.

His manner was calm, but his eyes were full of curiosity.

"You will find the fashions altered, Sire," he said.

He glanced from under his brows at the thickset man.
He opened the roller with a quick movement, and a confusion of brilliant fabrics poured out over his knees.

"You lived, Sire, in a period essentially cylindrical--the Victorian.