As soon as you and he are away from the house, you may talk about it.

Until then, you will close your lips on the subject." The clerk did not keep us long waiting.

He came as fast as the mail from London could bring him.
I had expected, from his master's description, to see a serious, sedate man, rather sly in his looks, and rather reserved in his manner.

To my amazement, this practiced hand at delicate investigations was a brisk, plump, jolly little man, with a comfortable double chin, a pair of very bright black eyes, and a big bottle-nose of the true groggy red color.
He wore a suit of black, and a limp, dingy white cravat; took snuff perpetually out of a very large box; walked with his hands crossed behind his back; and looked, upon the whole, much more like a parson of free-and-easy habits than a lawyer's clerk.
"How d'ye do ?" says he, when I opened the door to him.

"I'm the man you expect from the office in London.