Only a pudding to follow, and a glass of glorious old sherry.

Miss Henley is good enough to excuse it--and my wife's used to it--and you will put up with it, Mr.Mountjoy, if you are half as amiable as you look.

I'm an old-fashioned man.

The pleasure of a glass of wine with you, sir." Hugh's first experience of the "glorious old sherry" led him to a discovery, which proved to be more important than he was disposed to consider it at the moment.

He merely observed, with some amusement, that Mr.Vimpany smacked his lips in hearty approval of the worst sherry that his guest had ever tasted.