Occasionally he lapsed into reveries, out of which he would come with a start and break in on other people's conversation, talking them down with a serene indifference to their feelings.
"Come out to old man Grant, have you ?" he drawled to Carew, when the ceremonies of introduction were over.

"Well, I can do something better for you than that.

I want a mate for my next trip, and a rough lonely hot trip it'll be.

But don't you make any mistake.

The roughest and hottest I can show you will be child's play to having anything to do with Grant.