"Don't you think it rather stuffy with that big lamp?
As those candles on the chimney are going we might put it out." "Like this ?" The amiable Mitchy had straightway obliged his companion and he as promptly took in the effect of the diminished light on the character of the room, which he commended as if the depth of shadow produced were all this companion had sought.

He might freshly have brought home to Vanderbank that a man sensitive to so many different things, and thereby always sure of something or other, could never really be incommoded; though that personage presently indeed showed himself occupied with another thought.
"I think I ought to mention to you that I've told him how you and Mrs.Brook now both know.

I did so this afternoon on our way back from church--I hadn't done it before.

He took me a walk round to show me more of the place, and that gave me my chance.

But he doesn't mind," Vanderbank continued.