Don't you see ?' 'Oh! I see,' returned Joyce.

'I ain't in such a hurry.

What's he doing ?' Doubleday, whose propensities were waggish, suggested 'shaving,' but half ashamed of it, since the joke missed, fell to as if he were soaping his face, and had some trouble to contract his jaw.
The delay in Evan's attendance on the guests of the house was caused by the fact that Mrs.Mel had lain in wait for him descending, to warn him that he must treat them with no supercilious civility, and to tell him partly the reason why.

On hearing the potential relations in which they stood toward the estate of his father, Evan hastily and with the assurance of a son of fortune, said they should be paid.
'That's what they would like to hear,' said Mrs.Mel.

'You may just mention it when they're going to leave.