"You are one of the few men who can try that experiment with a fair chance of success." The suddenness of the answer fairly took away Arnold's breath.

There was something perfectly electric in the brevity of his venerable friend.

He stared harder than ever.
"Don't you understand me ?" asked Sir Patrick.
"I don't understand what the moist sugar has got to do with it, Sir." "You don't see that ?" "Not a bit!" "Then I'll show you," said Sir Patrick, crossing his legs, and setting in comfortably for a good talk "You go to the tea-shop, and get your moist sugar.

You take it on the understanding that it is moist sugar.
But it isn't any thing of the sort.

It's a compound of adulterations made up to look like sugar.