If he addressed any remarks to the lady under his charge, Miss Mattock did not hear him; and she listened--who shall say why?
His unlike likeness to his brother had struck her.

Patrick opposite was flowing in speech.

But Captain Philip O'Donnell's taciturnity seemed no uncivil gloom: it wore nothing of that look of being beneath the table, which some of our good English are guilty of at their social festivities, or of towering aloof a Matterhorn above it, in the style of Colonel Adister.

Her discourse with the latter amused her passing reflections.

They started a subject, and he punctuated her observations, or she his, and so they speedily ran to earth.
'I think,' says she, 'you were in Egypt this time last winter.' He supplies her with a comma: 'Rather later.' Then he carries on the line.