Will you not be seated, Major?
We shall not have long to converse, and there is much to be said before those downstairs complete their rather frugal meal--Peter has promised to delay serving as much as possible, but, as our larder is not extensive, at best it will not be long.

You overheard Captain Grant's threat ?" "To search the house for your brother--yes." "He will carry it out," quietly, her eyes, no longer smiling, on my face.
"There has never been friendship between those two, and of late my own relations with Captain Grant have become very unpleasant.

I think he is almost glad of an opportunity to thus exercise some authority over me.

He is the kind of a man who must either rule or ruin.

Convinced that Eric is concealed here, he will search the house as much to spite me as for any other reason.