I agreed with him about everything.
As he selected his smoke to go home with I said, 'Send your application in to the Director of Public Instruction, Bengal--Lamb will tell you how--and I'll see what I can do.' They were only too thankful to get him.

As a student it seemed he had been diligent both in London and Paris; he possessed diplomas or some such things bearing names which were bound to have weight with a Department of Public Instruction anywhere.

I felt particularly thankful for this, for I was committed to him if he had not a rag to show.
The matter was settled in three weeks, during which Armour became more and more the fashion in Simla.

He was given every opportunity of experiment in the society of which he was about to become a permanent item.

He dined out four or five times a week, and learned exactly what to talk about.