For once, Lorne, I'll have to order you ready-made shirts, and you'll just have to put up with it.

Nothing else could possibly get back from the wash." "I'll put up with it, Mother." They went into other details of Lorne's equipment while Mrs Murchison's eye still wandered over the necessities of his wardrobe.

They arranged the date on which he was to meet the members of the deputation in Montreal, and Mr Cruickshank promised to send him all available documents and such presentation of the project as had been made in the newspapers.
"You shall be put in immediate possession of the bones of the thing," he said, "but what really matters," he added pleasantly, "I think you've got already." It took, of course, some discussion, and it was quite ten o'clock before everything was gone into, and the prospect was clear to them all.

As they emerged into the hall together, the door of the room opposite also opened, and the Rev.Hugh Finlay found himself added to their group.
They all made the best of the unexpected encounter.

It was rather an elaborate best, very polite and entirely grave, except in the instance of Dr Drummond, who met his subaltern with a smile in which cordiality struggled in vain to overcome the delighted humour..