He paused, gazed at her in frank--vulgarly frank--admiration; just then, it seemed to her, he never said or did or looked anything except in the vulgarest way.
"You certainly are a costly-looking luxury," said he loudly, when there were still a dozen yards between them.

"Oh, there's your mother at the window, upstairs--her bedroom window." "How did you know it was her bedroom ?" asked Margaret.
"While I was waiting for you to come down one day I sent for one of the servants and had him explain the lay of the house." "Really!" said Margaret, satirical and amused.

"I suppose there was no mail on the table or you'd have read that while you waited ?" "There you go, trying to say clever, insulting things.

Why not be frank?
Why not be direct ?" "Why should I, simply because YOU wish it?
You don't half realize how amusing you are." "Oh, yes, I do," retorted he, with a shrewd, quick glance from those all-seeing eyes of his.
"Half, I said.

You do half realize.