It delights him to find me out in a howler--makes him, in fact, quite good-tempered for twenty minutes.
'As to the rest of the family, there is a charming boy and girl--twins of nineteen, the boy just off to an artillery camp after his cadet training; the girl extremely pretty and distinguished, and so far inclined to think me an intruder and a nuisance.

How to get round her I don't exactly know, but I daresay I shall manage it somehow.

If she would only set up a love-affair I could soon get the whip-hand of her! 'Then there is the priceless butler, with whom I have already made friends.

I seem to have a taste for butlers, though I've never lived with one.

He is fifty-two and a volunteer, in stark opposition to the Squire, who jeers at him perpetually.