I get pretty lonely sometimes.

Garry, here, never stays five minutes when he comes to see me, so many people are after him all the time.

Please say you'll come!" There was a note in the boy's voice that swept away all the older man's scruples.
"Come, my son! Of course I'll come," burst out Peter.

"I'll be there at nine o'clock." As Morris and the others passed between the table and the wall on their way to the cloak-room, Minott, who had listened to the whole conversation, waited until he thought Peter had gone ahead, and then, with an impatient gesture, said: "What the devil, Jack, do you want to waste your time over an old fellow like that for ?" "Oh, Garry, don't--" "Don't! A bald-headed old pill who ought to have--" Then the two passed out of hearing..