For some reason or other, the visit of the Saxthorpes seemed to have excited him.

He talked continually, with the briefest pauses.

Every now and then he gazed steadily across the marshes through his telescope.
"Lord Saxthorpe," he remarked, "has, I must confess, greatly excited my curiosity as to the identity of our visitor.

Such a harmless-looking person, he seems, to be causing such a commotion.

Gerald, don't you feel your responsibility in the matter ?" "Yes, sir, I do!" Gerald replied, with unexpected grimness.