And of course he isn't--must draw the line somewhere--hang it! But he's an awfully decent fellow.

He's not going to push himself in where he isn't wanted.

You let Elizabeth alone, Mummy--it'll work off.
And of course we must be civil to him when he comes over--I should jolly well think we must--considering he saved my life!" Certainly they must be civil! News of Anderson's sailing and arrival had been anxiously looked for.

He had reached London three days before this date, had presented his credentials at the Board of Trade and the Colonial Office, and after various preliminary interviews with ministers, was now coming down to Martindale for a week-end before the assembling of the small conference of English and colonial representatives to which he had been sent.
Mrs.Gaddesden saw from the various notices of his arrival in the English papers that even in England, among the initiated he was understood to be a man of mark.

She was all impatience to see him, and had shown it outwardly much more plainly than Elizabeth.