He is not a man with intimate friends.

Where, then, could he have been?
Is it not obvious ?" "Well, it is rather obvious." "The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Where do you think that I have been ?" "A fixture also." "On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire." "In spirit ?" "Exactly.

My body has remained in this arm-chair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco.

After you left I sent down to Stamford's for the Ordnance map of this portion of the moor, and my spirit has hovered over it all day.