He knows that Paul hates coming away from the office on week days." Burton groaned.
"Is his name Paul ?" "Certainly it is," she answered.
"It sounds very familiar." "It is nothing of the sort; when you are engaged to a person, you naturally call him by his Christian name.

I can't think, though, why father didn't tell us that he was coming." "I have an idea," Burton declared, "that his coming has something to do with me." "With you?
"Why not?
Am I not an interesting subject for speculation?
Mr.
Bomford, you told me only a few days ago, is a scientist, an Egyptologist, a philosopher.

Why should he not be interested in the same things which interest your father ?" "It is quite true," she admitted.

"I had not thought of that." "At the present moment," Burton continued, moving a little on one side, "they are probably in the dining-room drinking Hock and seltzer, and your father is explaining to your fiance the phenomenon of my experiences.

I wonder whether he will believe them ?" "Mr.Bomford," she said, "will believe anything that my father tells him." "Are you very much in love ?" Burton asked, irrelevantly.
"You ask such absurd questions," she replied.