This storm may last for another hour; you will get _so_ wet." He was a kindly old gentleman; he seemed quite anxious about us.
I said: "It is very kind of you to have come out.

We are not lunatics.
We have not been standing under that tree for the last half-hour knowing all the time there was a restaurant, hidden by the trees, within twenty yards of us.

We had no idea we were anywhere near a restaurant." "I thought maybe you hadn't," said the old gentleman; "that is why I came." It appeared that all the people in the inn had been watching us from the windows also, wondering why we stood there looking miserable.

If it had not been for this nice old gentleman the fools would have remained watching us, I suppose, for the rest of the afternoon.

The landlord excused himself by saying he thought we looked like English.