"She knew that I wanted a little talk with you about him." Then Malcolm's brief sullenness vanished.
"You shall talk to me as much as you like," he said in the most cordial manner, and indeed he felt very kindly towards this gentle, simple-minded creature.

"I am ready for any amount of conversation on any subject from 'cabbages to kings.'" Then she smiled well pleased at his little joke.
"I wanted to ask you about these new friends of Cedric's," she began.
"He seems so full of them, and neither Elizabeth nor I know anything about them.

My sister, who is certainly not at all a narrow-minded person, has taken a most singular prejudice against them." "Do you mean the Jacobis?
My dear Miss Templeton, I am sorry to say that I have never met them." Then Dinah's face fell.

"It is not surprising, of course, that many of Cedric's friends are unknown to me, for we move in very different circles.

He has been raving about the Jacobis all the afternoon; but all the same I don't seem to focus them properly." "Cedric is going to stay with them next month," observed Dinah.