Good thing he's your Bishop, Graham: you can leave it to him easily ?" "I should think so, sir," said Peter forlornly.
"Oh, well, glad to hear you say it, I'm sure, Graham, and so will Mrs.
Lessing be, and Hilda.

We're old-fashioned folk, you know....

Well, well, and I suppose I oughtn't to keep you.

I'll come with you to the door, my boy." He walked ahead of the young man into the hall, and handed him his hat himself.

On the steps they shook hands to the fire of small sentences.
"Drop in some evening, won't you?
Don't know if I really congratulated you on the sermon; you spoke extraordinarily well, Graham.