What I mean is that he's a kind of result of his inevitable tone.

My liking is accordingly FOR the tone--which has made him possible." "Oh, you'll hear enough of it," she laughed, "before you've done with us." Only this, in truth, had made him frown a little.
"What do you mean, please, by my having 'done' with you ?" "Why, found out about us all there is to find." He had been able to take it indeed easily as a joke.

"Ah, love, I began with that.

I know enough, I feel, never to be surprised.

It's you yourselves meanwhile," he continued, "who really know nothing.