Your servant seemed to think I was in the way.

Are you the proprietor ?" "Well, I am one of them.

Why ?" "Nothing--only I hoped to find you more hospitable." "Oh, smoke away--guess we can stand it, if you can.

Dinner's over"-- he looked at the big clock decorating the white wall--"but they'll be piling in here after the theatres is out.

You live around here ?" "No, not immediately." "Looking for any one ?" Felix gave a slight start and, from under his narrowed lids, shot one of his bull's-eye flashes.
The man caught the flash and, misinterpreting it, bent down and said in a hoarse whisper: "Come from the central office, don't you ?" Felix took a long puff at his pipe.