His inquiries were in so loud a voice that Amy checked him with a forbidding gesture.
'You'll wake Willie!' 'By Jove! I always forget,' he exclaimed in subdued tones.

'Does the infant flourish ?' 'Oh, yes!' 'Reardon out?
I got back on Saturday evening, but couldn't come round before this.' It was Monday.

'How close it is in here! I suppose the roof gets so heated during the day.

Glorious weather in the country! And I've no end of things to tell you.

He won't be long, I suppose ?' 'I think not.' He left his hat and stick in the passage, came into the study, and glanced about as if he expected to see some change since he was last here, three weeks ago.
'So you have been enjoying yourself ?' said Amy as, after listening for a moment at the door, she took a seat.
'Oh, a little freshening of the faculties.