He gave a great scrape on the floor with one of his heels as if he would have ploughed a track in the boards.
'I'm sorry,' he began, 'I've got no free time worth speaking of.

I'm much obliged to the lady.

But I don't see how I'm to--' He wanted to blunder out words of angry impatience; his rising choler brought him to a full stop in the middle of the sentence.
Egremont addressed himself in earnest to the task persuasion.

More was involved than mere benefit to the child's health; it was easy to see that Bunce's position was a miserable one, and Mrs.Ormonde, if once she could establish direct relations with the man, would doubtless find many a little way of being useful to him.

He put it at length as a personal favour.