Of what use is he to us ?" "You are too hasty, my dear father," she replied.

"Let me assure you that there is nothing at all mysterious about Mr.Tavernake.The simple truth is that the young man rather attracts me." The professor gazed at her incredulously.
"Attracts you! He!" "You have never perfectly understood me, my dear parent," she murmured.
"You have never appreciated that trait in my character, that strange preference, if you like, for the absolutely original.

Now in all my life I never met such a young man as this.

He wears the clothes and he has the features and speech of just such a person as you have described, but there is a difference." "A difference, indeed!" the professor interrupted roughly.

"What difference, I should like to know ?" She shrugged her shoulders lightly.
"He is stolid without being stupid," she explained.