"I am very glad you came down with me, Mangan," he went on, after a minute's hesitation.

"I find it very difficult to get back into the atmosphere of those days.

I even find it hard sometimes," he added, with a curious little glance across the table, "to believe that I am the same man." "Not so hard as I have done more than once," Mr.Mangan confessed.
"Tell me exactly in what respects you consider me changed ?" Dominey insisted.
"You seem to have lost a certain pliability, or perhaps I ought to call it looseness of disposition," he admitted.

"There are many things connected with the past which I find it almost impossible to associate with you.

For a trifling instance," he went on, with a slight smile, inclining his head towards his host's untasted glass.