But our ways are different ways, none the less.

You are wet, and you look weary.

Will you drink something before you go ?" He had replaced his neckerchief loosely, and had stood, keenly observant of me, biting a long end of it.

"I think," he answered, still with the end at his mouth and still observant of me, "that I will drink (I thank you) afore I go." There was a tray ready on a side-table.

I brought it to the table near the fire, and asked him what he would have?
He touched one of the bottles without looking at it or speaking, and I made him some hot rum and water.