We work together.' 'Would you ask him to come and have a chat with me here some evening ?' 'I shall be glad to, sir.' 'Pray persuade him to.

Any evening he likes.

Perhaps next Sunday after the lecture would do?
Tell him to bring his pipe and have a smoke with me here before the fire.' Grail smiled, and undertook to deliver the invitation.
'But there are other things I wished to speak of to you,' Egremont continued.

'Do you think it would be any advantage if I brought books for the members of the class to take away and use at their leisure?
Shakespeare, of course, you can all lay hands on, but the other Elizabethan authors are not so readily found.

For instance, there's a Marlowe on the desk; would you care to take him away with you ?' 'Thank you very much, sir,' was the reply, 'but I've got Marlowe.