How do I know?
and how do you ?" He suddenly turned on the deputation, standing thunder-struck behind him.

"If you want to know what I think, there it is for you, in plain words." There was something, not only in the shamelessness of the declaration itself, but in the fierce pleasure that the speaker seemed to feel in making it, which struck the circle of listeners, Sir Patrick included, with a momentary chill.
In the midst of the silence a sixth guest appeared on the lawn, and stepped into the library--a silent, resolute, unassuming, elderly man who had arrived the day before on a visit to Windygates, and who was well known, in and out of London, as one of the first consulting surgeons of his time.
"A discussion going on ?" he asked.

"Am I in the way ?" "There's no discussion--we are all agreed," cried Geoffrey, answering boisterously for the rest.

"The more the merrier, Sir!" After a glance at Geoffrey, the surgeon suddenly checked himself on the point of advancing to the inner part of the room, and remained standing at the window.
"I beg your pardon," said Sir Patrick, addressing himself to Geoffrey, with a grave dignity which was quite new in Arnold's experience of him.
"We are not all agreed.

I decline, Mr.Delamayn, to allow you to connect me with such an expression of feeling on your part as we have just heard.