He gruffly bade the animal "gid-dap" and appeared a trifle confused.
"I am," he admitted, after a moment.

"You'll be, too, when you see her." He described the High Cliff House and its owner.

Mr.Kendrick asked the terms for board and an "average" room.

When told he whistled.
"That isn't high," he said.

"For such a place as you say this is it is very low.