He regarded me through his horn-rimmed spectacles with a benign and pleasant expression.

I had been in the East, and I talked for a few moments upon the subjects which I thought would interest him.
"Your Excellency, I dare say, is well acquainted with London," I remarked, apropos of something he said.
"I know your great city only indifferently," he answered.

"I am always anxious to take the opportunity of seeing more of it." "Last evening, for instance," I remarked, "Your Excellency was, I think, exploring a very interesting neighborhood." "Last evening," he repeated.

"Let me think.

No, not last evening, Captain Rotherby! I was giving a little dinner at my own house." I looked at him for a moment in silence.