There is room here always for a guest.
I have other guests with whom you might care to speak.

I will have a room made ready.

Have I leave to ask questions of my cousin here ?" Cunningham bowed in recognition of his courtesy, and walked away to a point whence he could look from the beetling parapet away and away across desert that shone hot and hazy-rimmed on every side.

If this were a man on whom he must depend for following--if any of all the more than hints dropped by the risaldar were true--it seemed to him that his reception was a little too chilly to be hopeful.
After a minute or two he turned his eyes away from the dazzling plain below and faced about to inspect the paved courtyard.

Round it, on three sides of a parallelogram, there ran a beautifully designed and wonderfully worked-out veranda-fronted building, broken here and there by cobbled passages that evidently led to other buildings on the far edge of the rock.