I hope the kid is all right.

This is only a word in your ear, so don't get cocky, old son.
I am open to a godfathership.

Think of that, Hedda! Of course, if the other godfather and the godmother are up to the mark; I don't want to have to boost up the whole lot! Savvy?
Kiss Teuta and the kid for me.

I must have the boy over here for a bit later on--when he is presentable, and has learned not to be a nuisance.

It will be good for him to see something of a real first-class English country house like Humcroft.